Debugger : Reference to Rational Statemate Objects : Events, Conditions and Data-items

Events, Conditions and Data-items

You can refer to events, conditions and data-items by name, and inspect the values of any event, condition or data-item (with the exception of structured data-items). You can modify the values of any primitive condition or data-item as well as generate any primitive event. An event that is generated is said to be active.

Subclasses: External/Internal - Events, conditions and data-items produced by an external or primitive activity are external. If produced by a control activity, then they are internal. Note that it is possible for an event, condition or data-item to be both internal and external. When you modify the value of an item that does not come from the environment, then you are cheating and changing the model’s behavior. If you change data coming from the environment, then you are simulating the environment.