From UML to Process Algebra and Back: An Automated Approach to Model-Checking Software Design Artifacts of Concurrent Systems

Remenska, Daniela; Templon, J. A.; Willemse, Tim A. C.; Homburg, Philip; Verstoep, Kees; Ramo, A Casajus; Bal, Henri E.

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“…To avoid potential errors, as well as reduce effort in specifications, we want to ideally stay in the same IDE used for modeling the system, and select only existing events that represent valid communication between components. In addition, we can already obtain mCRL2 models from UML designs comprising sequence diagrams [1]. In our experience, visual scenarios are the most suitable and commonly used means to specify the dynamics of a system.…”

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“…The root cause of this problem could not be identified by testing with different workload scenarios, nor by analysis of the generated logs. In [1] we manually formulated this problem as the following safety property:…”

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“…Bridging the gap between industry-adopted methodologies based on UML software designs and the aforementioned tools and languages, in [1] we devised a methodology for automatically verifying UML sequence and activity diagrams. Our prototype uses the mCRL2 language [2] and toolset as its backend, without users having to leave the UML domain, except when specifying application-specific properties.…”

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“…To this end, we use the standard MDT-UML2 [16] Eclipse modeling API. We revisit a case study we did previously in [1], this time using PASS to obtain the formula and monitor for checking the property.…”

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Property Specification Made Easy: Harnessing the Power of Model Checking in UML Designs

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Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems

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Developing correct concurrent software is challenging. Design errors can result in deadlocks, race conditions and livelocks, and discovering these is difficult. A serious obstacle for an industrial uptake of rigorous analysis techniques such as model checking is the learning curve associated to the languages -typically temporal logics -used for specifying the application-specific properties to be checked. To bring the process of correctly eliciting functional properties closer to software engineers, we introduce PASS, a Property ASSistant wizard as part of a UML-based front-end to the mCRL2 toolset. PASS instantiates pattern templates using three notations: a natural language summary, a µcalculus formula and a UML sequence diagram depicting the desired behavior. Most approaches to date have focused on LTL, which is a state-based formalism. Conversely, µ-calculus is event-based, making it a good match for sequence diagrams, where communication between components is depicted. We revisit a case study from the Grid domain, using PASS to obtain the formula and monitor for checking the property.

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Property Specification Made Easy: Harnessing the Power of Model Checking in UML Designs

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Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems

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“…This method was prototyped as a design tree for a CAD tool. Other studies [6,16] have focused on the base of the design process, design units, and understand the design process as an event chain. According to this perspective, the design process is actually composed of linear chains of design events, including the operation of the design tools and models.…”

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A research method to capture design state based on multi-fuzzy cognitive mapping

2015

IFS

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Abstract. Designer thinking has received much attention as an innovative problem-solving approach. However, it is also a vague and unclear activity which can only be studied through the input and output results in a design process. This paper proposes that the visual design state is the external performance of design thinking, which is used to clarify vague design thinking. In this paper, a method for expressing and capturing design states based on multi-fuzzy cognitive mapping is presented. First, an agent model is built to capture the design states, and the weight values of the multi-fuzzy cognitive map matrix are calculated. The tightness of the design state route is then deduced. An example is presented to demonstrate the use of this method, which is able to support the designer with the necessary design resources and an intelligent design environment.

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Verifying System-Wide Properties of Industrial Component-Based Software

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Rol²,

Groote³

2019

Fundamentals of Software Engineering

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From UML to Process Algebra and Back: An Automated Approach to Model-Checking Software Design Artifacts of Concurrent Systems

Cited by 11 publications

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Property Specification Made Easy: Harnessing the Power of Model Checking in UML Designs

Property Specification Made Easy: Harnessing the Power of Model Checking in UML Designs

A research method to capture design state based on multi-fuzzy cognitive mapping

Verifying System-Wide Properties of Industrial Component-Based Software

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