Run A Test Cycle

The Synthetic AC testbench measures a simulated powered device, records its lifecycle, and demonstrates controlled fault recovery. Its startup suite is synthetic.device.startup with template synthetic.device.startup.sequence.

1. Start Dokime

mise run dev:desktop:dev

The desktop starts the dokime backend beside it, which loads the bundled Synthetic plugin and registers its testbench suites and domains before initialization.

2. Plan

Open Plan, choose Startup Testbench → Device Startup, and inspect the AC voltage, load resistance, frequency, phase and observation duration parameters. These values become immutable execution inputs when the run is admitted.

Steady-State Testbench declares three voltage choices and a three-point load linspace, producing nine Cartesian cases. Narrow either axis for a shorter run. Electrical inputs are template parameters, not plugin settings. The optional images.directory path setting supplies a reference PNG only when the startup case enables attach_reference.

3. Execute

Start the cycle from Execution. The runtime admits the work through its serialized execution lane. Case state, prompts, records, evidence, and telemetry are committed through typed Harmos transactions or publications.

You can pause, resume, stop, rerun a case, restart a cycle, or reopen a cycle through the product surfaces where the current state permits the transition.

4. Observe

Use Cycle to inspect:

• current case and execution status;
• pending prompts and submitted responses;
• records and telemetry streams;
• traceability, notes, evidence, and artifacts;
• report jobs and the generated document.

5. Review

After execution, Explore lists durable cycle history. It can open a cycle or compare cycles. Report RPCs provide HTML and the declared document; Content RPCs serve stored bytes and downloads.

The runtime journal and snapshot recover product state. Tracked telemetry rows and artifacts recover from their own stores, described in Recover Telemetry.

6. Exercise protection and recovery

Overcurrent Protection increases the load tenfold and checks that the current limit disconnects the DUT and blocks restart while latched. Power-Loss Recovery removes simulated DUT power, clears its latch and checks a controlled restart. Neither procedure crashes the plugin process or requires an operator prompt.

Voltage and current appear in separate plots with volts and amperes. Samples use deterministic simulated time; host timestamps include scheduling and operator pauses. At 50 Hz, the default 1 ms interval gives 20 samples per electrical cycle.