SCENARIO PRESENTATION TOOL

A scenario presentation tool or system provides for the definition, maintenance, and presentation of scenarios. The scenarios comprise a series of steps representing the dynamic behavior of a system. The tool utilizes a system description and includes arrangements for reading and presenting the system description and an arrangement for selecting elements from the system description and for facilitating the definition, maintenance, and presentation of scenarios. The method comprises the steps of defining a sequence of steps by selecting elements from the system description in accordance with a predetermined syntax and saving the steps with sufficient information to reproduce the scenarios.