Cost Effective Software Engineering for Security

Johnson, D. Randolph

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“…The Tokeneer project [3] is one of the most interesting pilot projects forming part of the Verified Software Initiative [16], and has been cited by the US National Academies as exemplifying best practice in software engineering [17]. The project was certified to Common Criteria Level 5 and in the areas of specification, design and implementation achieving Levels 6 and 7.…”

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An integrated framework for checking the behaviour of fUML models using CSP

Abdelhalim

Schneider

Treharne

2012

Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer

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Transforming UML models into a formal representation to check certain properties has been addressed many times in the literature. However, the lack of automatic formalization for executable UML models and provision of model checking results as modellerfriendly feedback has inhibited the practical use of such approaches in real life projects. In this paper we address those issues by performing the automatic formalization of the fUML (Foundational subset for executable UML) models into CSP without any interaction with the modeller, who should be isolated from the formal methods domain. The formal analysis provides the modeller with a UML sequence diagram that represents the model checking result in the case where an error has been found in the model. This work also considers the formalization of systems that depend on asynchronous communication between components in order to allow checking of the dynamic concurrent behaviour of systems.We have designed a comprehensive framework that is implemented as a plugin to MagicDraw (the CASE tool we use) that we call Compass. The framework depends on Epsilon as a model transformation tool that utilizes the Model Driven Engineering (MDE) approach. It also implements an optimization approach to be able to model check concurrent systems using FDR2, and at the same time comply with the fUML inter-object communication mechanism. In order to validate our frame-

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An integrated framework for checking the behaviour of fUML models using CSP

Abdelhalim

Schneider

Treharne

2012

Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer

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Formal Verification of Tokeneer Behaviours Modelled in fUML Using CSP

Abdelhalim

Sharp

Schneider

et al. 2010

Formal Methods and Software Engineering

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Abstract. Much research work has been done on formalizing UML diagrams, but less has focused on using this formalization to analyze the dynamic behaviours between formalized components. In this paper we propose using a subset of fUML (Foundational Subset for Executable UML) as a semi-formal language, and formalizing it to the process algebraic specification language CSP, to make use of FDR as a model checker. Our formalization includes modelling the asynchronous communication framework used within fUML. This allows different interpretations of the communications model to be evaluated. To illustrate the approach, we use the modelling of the Tokeneer ID Station specifications into fUML, and formalize them in CSP to check if the model is deadlock free.

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Cost Effective Software Engineering for Security

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An integrated framework for checking the behaviour of fUML models using CSP

An integrated framework for checking the behaviour of fUML models using CSP

Formal Verification of Tokeneer Behaviours Modelled in fUML Using CSP

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