The original publication is available at www.springerlink.comInternational audienceIn this paper, we present the LearnLib, a library of tools for automata learning, which is explicitly designed for the systematic experimental analysis of the profile of available learning algorithms and corresponding optimizations. Its modular structure allows users to configure their own tailored learning scenarios, which exploit specific properties of their envisioned applications. As has been shown earlier, exploiting application-specific structural features enables optimizations that may lead to performance gains of several orders of magnitude, a necessary precondition to make automata learning applicable to realistic scenarios

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This paper presents Genesys, a framework for the high-level construction of property conform code generators. Genesys is an integral part of jABC, a flexible framework designed to enable a systematic model-driven development of systems and applications on the basis of an (extensible) library of well-defined, reusable building blocks. Within jABC, Genesys manages the construction of code generators for jABC's models. So far, Genesys has been used to develop code generators for a variety of different target platforms, like a number of Java-based platforms, mobile devices, BPEL engines, etc. Since the code generators are themselves built within the jABC in a model-driven way, concepts like bootstrapping and reuse of existing components enable a fast evolution of Genesys' code generation library, and a high degree of self-application. Due to its increasing complexity and its high degree of reuse, Genesys profits from model checking-based verification. This way, jABC's models of code generators can be automatically checked wrt. wellformedness properties, to ensure that the models do indeed only consist of building blocks which are suitable for the considered target platforms, and whose versions are mutually compatible. It can be also be verified that the code generation process only starts after a successful initialization phase, and that the generated code is always packaged with all the required libraries. We will illustrate the ease of extension and flexibility of the Genesys framework by describing the

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practice THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING community has devised many techniques, tools, and approaches aimed at improving software reliability and dependability. These have had varying degrees of success, some with better results in particular domains than others, or in particular classes of applications. A popular, although not uncontroversial, approach is known as formal methods, whereby a specification notation with formal semantics, along with a deductive apparatus for reasoning, is used to specify, design, analyze, and ultimately implement a hardware or software (or hybrid) system.Such an approach is often thought to be difficult to apply and to require significant mathematical experience. 1,11 Experience has demonstrated that developers without significant mathematical ability can at least understand and use formal specifications, Software Engineering and Formal Methods

The one thing approach is designed to overcome the classical communication hurdles between application experts and the various levels of IT experts. Technically, it is realized in terms of eXtreme Model Driven Design, a technique that puts the user-level process in the center of the development. It enables customers/users to design, animate, validate, and control their processes throughout the whole life cycle, starting with the first requirement analysis, and ending with the demand driven process evolution over its entire life span. This strict way of top-down thinking emphasizes the primary goal of every development: customer satisfaction.