Lightweight Specification and Analysis of Dynamic Systems with Rich Configurations

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2016

Authors

Macedo, N (Author) Other; Brunel, J (Author) Other; Chemouil, D (Author) Other; Cunha, A (Author) Other; Kuperberg, D (Author) Other

Conference proceedings International

Title: FSE'16: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 24TH ACM SIGSOFT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Pages: 373-383

24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE)

Seattle, WA, NOV 13-18, 2016

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Authenticus ID: P-00M-7K8

DOI: 10.1145/2950290.2950318

Abstract (EN): Model-checking is increasingly popular in the early phases of the software development process. To establish the correctness of a software design one must usually verify both structural and behavioral(or temporal) properties. Unfortunately, most specification languages, and accompanying model-checkers, excel only in analyzing either one or the other kind. This limits their ability to verify dynamic systems with rich configurations: systems whose state space is characterized by rich structural properties, but whose evolution is also expected to satisfy certain temporal properties. To address this problem, we first propose Electrum, an extension of the Alloy specification language with temporal logic operators, where both rich configurations and expressive temporal properties can easily be de fined. Two alternative model-checking techniques are then proposed, one bounded and the other unbounded, to verify systems expressed in this language, namely to verify that every desirable temporal property holds for every possible configuration.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11