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Symbolic execution of UML-RT State Machines

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Karolina Zurowska,

Juergen DingelAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '12: Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 1292 - 1299

https://doi.org/10.1145/2245276.2231981

Published: 26 March 2012 Publication History

Abstract

UML-RT is one of the languages used in the industrial practice of the model-driven development (MDD). The language is a proper profile of UML 2 and it uses UML-RT State Machines to model behavior of systems. This paper presents a technique for a symbolic execution of these machines, which introduces modular treatment of action code. This feature clearly separates the symbolic execution of the state machine itself from the symbolic execution of its action code and thus facilitates support of different action languages. The separation is achieved via a formalization of UML-RT State Machines in which functions are used to represent the result of the symbolic execution of the action code. Key parts of the technique are formalized and its implementation is presented. An example is used to illustrate different analyses including reachability, invariant checking, output analysis and test case generation.

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Symbolic execution of UML-RT State Machines
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Reliability
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Formal software verification
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Extra-functional properties
      1. Software reliability
    2. Software functional properties
      1. Formal methods

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SAC '12: Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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ISBN:9781450308571

DOI:10.1145/2245276

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