Model-Based Specification Animation Using Testgraphs

Miller, Tim; Strooper, Paul

doi:10.1007/3-540-36103-0_21

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“…Moreover, to effectively apply the inspection principle, it is necessary to assume that the specification satisfies the user's requirements. Many techniques for validating formal specifications have been reported in the literature [36], [52], [31], [50], but a discussion of this topic is beyond the scope of this paper.…”

Section: Principle Of Specification-based Inspectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Formal Specification-Based Inspection for Verification of Programs

Liu

Chen

Nagoya

et al. 2012

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Software inspection is a static analysis technique that is widely used for defect detection, but which suffers from a lack of rigor. In this paper, we address this problem by taking advantage of formal specification and analysis to support a systematic and rigorous inspection method. The aim of the method is to use inspection to determine whether every functional scenario defined in the specification is implemented correctly by a set of program paths and whether every program path of the program contributes to the implementation of some functional scenario in the specification. The method is comprised of five steps: deriving functional scenarios from the specification, deriving paths from the program, linking scenarios to paths, analyzing paths against the corresponding scenarios, and producing an inspection report, and allows for a systematic and automatic generation of a checklist for inspection. We present an example to show how the method can be used, and describe an experiment to evaluate its performance by comparing it to perspective-based reading (PBR). The result shows that our method may be more effective in detecting function-related defects than PBR but slightly less effective in detecting implementation-related defects. We also describe a prototype tool to demonstrate the supportability of the method, and draw some conclusions about our work.

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Section: Principle Of Specification-based Inspectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Formal Specification-Based Inspection for Verification of Programs

Liu

Chen

Nagoya

et al. 2012

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…Tim Miller and Paul Strooper introduced a framework for animating model-based specification by using testgraphs [9]. The framework provides a testgraph editor for users to edit testgraphs, and then derive sequences for animation by traversing the testgraph.…”

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Design and Implementation of Automated Visualization for Input/Output for Processes in SOFL Formal Specifications

Liu¹

2018

IJSEA

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“…It assists system designers in systematically verifying whether the expected properties and behaviors of a system are specified correctly and consistently in the specification by giving the designers an early view of the high-level dynamic behavior of the formal requirement description. It also provides a way to validate the formal specifications with the end users and field experts to ensure that what is formally described is really what was desired [15,16].…”

Section: Specification Animationmentioning

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Software monitoring through formal specification animation

Liang

Dong

Sun

et al. 2009

Innovations Syst Softw Eng

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This paper presents a formal specification-based software monitoring approach that can dynamically and continuously monitor the behaviors of a target system and explicitly recognize undesirable behaviors in the implementation with respect to its formal specification. The key idea of our approach is in building a monitoring module that connects a specification animator with a program debugger. The requirements information about expected dynamic behaviors of the target system are gathered from the formal specification animator, while the actual behaviors of concrete implementations of the target system are obtained through the program debugger. Based on the information obtained from both sides, the judgement on the conformance of the concrete implementation with respect to the formal specification is made timely while the target system is running. Furthermore, the proposed formal specification-based software monitoring technique does not embed any instrumentation codes to the target system nor does it annotate the target system with any formal specifications. It can detect implementation errors in a real-time manner, and help the developers and users of the system to react to the problems before critical failure occurs.

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Model-Based Specification Animation Using Testgraphs

Cited by 15 publications

References 8 publications

Formal Specification-Based Inspection for Verification of Programs

Formal Specification-Based Inspection for Verification of Programs

Design and Implementation of Automated Visualization for Input/Output for Processes in SOFL Formal Specifications

Software monitoring through formal specification animation

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