Specification Patterns: Formal and Easy

Property specification is still one of the most challenging tasks for transference of software verification technology. The use of patterns has been proposed in order to hide the complicated handling of formal languages from the developer. However, this goal is not entirely satisfied. When validatin...

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Autores principales: Asteasuain, F., Braberman, V.
Formato: JOUR
Materias:
Behavioral modeling
requirements engineering
specification patterns
Computational linguistics
Computer hardware description languages
Formal languages
Requirements engineering
Semantics
Specification languages
Verification
Visual languages
Behavioral model
Behavioral properties
Graphical languages
Pattern representation
Pattern specifications
Property Specification
Software verification
Specification patterns
Specifications
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_02181940_v25_n4_p669_Asteasuain
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Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires
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spelling todo:paper_02181940_v25_n4_p669_Asteasuain2023-10-03T15:10:47Z Specification Patterns: Formal and Easy Asteasuain, F. Braberman, V. Behavioral modeling requirements engineering specification patterns Computational linguistics Computer hardware description languages Formal languages Requirements engineering Semantics Specification languages Verification Visual languages Behavioral model Behavioral properties Graphical languages Pattern representation Pattern specifications Property Specification Software verification Specification patterns Specifications Property specification is still one of the most challenging tasks for transference of software verification technology. The use of patterns has been proposed in order to hide the complicated handling of formal languages from the developer. However, this goal is not entirely satisfied. When validating the desired property the developer may have to deal with the pattern representation in some particular formalism. For this reason, we identify four desirable quality attributes for the underlying specification language: succinctness, comparability, complementariness, and modifiability. We show that typical formalisms such as temporal logics or automata fail at some extent to support these features. Given this context we introduce Featherweight Visual Scenarios (FVS), a declarative and graphical language based on scenarios, as a possible alternative to specify behavioral properties. We illustrate FVS applicability by modeling all the specification patterns and we thoroughly compare FVS to other known approaches, showing that FVS specifications are better suited for validation tasks. In addition, we augment pattern specification by introducing the concept of violating behavior. Finally we characterize the type of properties that can be written in FVS and we formally introduce its syntax and semantics. © 2015 World Scientific Publishing Company. Fil:Braberman, V. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_02181940_v25_n4_p669_Asteasuain
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topic Behavioral modeling
requirements engineering
specification patterns
Computational linguistics
Computer hardware description languages
Formal languages
Requirements engineering
Semantics
Specification languages
Verification
Visual languages
Behavioral model
Behavioral properties
Graphical languages
Pattern representation
Pattern specifications
Property Specification
Software verification
Specification patterns
Specifications
spellingShingle Behavioral modeling
requirements engineering
specification patterns
Computational linguistics
Computer hardware description languages
Formal languages
Requirements engineering
Semantics
Specification languages
Verification
Visual languages
Behavioral model
Behavioral properties
Graphical languages
Pattern representation
Pattern specifications
Property Specification
Software verification
Specification patterns
Specifications
Asteasuain, F.
Braberman, V.
Specification Patterns: Formal and Easy
topic_facet Behavioral modeling
requirements engineering
specification patterns
Computational linguistics
Computer hardware description languages
Formal languages
Requirements engineering
Semantics
Specification languages
Verification
Visual languages
Behavioral model
Behavioral properties
Graphical languages
Pattern representation
Pattern specifications
Property Specification
Software verification
Specification patterns
Specifications
description Property specification is still one of the most challenging tasks for transference of software verification technology. The use of patterns has been proposed in order to hide the complicated handling of formal languages from the developer. However, this goal is not entirely satisfied. When validating the desired property the developer may have to deal with the pattern representation in some particular formalism. For this reason, we identify four desirable quality attributes for the underlying specification language: succinctness, comparability, complementariness, and modifiability. We show that typical formalisms such as temporal logics or automata fail at some extent to support these features. Given this context we introduce Featherweight Visual Scenarios (FVS), a declarative and graphical language based on scenarios, as a possible alternative to specify behavioral properties. We illustrate FVS applicability by modeling all the specification patterns and we thoroughly compare FVS to other known approaches, showing that FVS specifications are better suited for validation tasks. In addition, we augment pattern specification by introducing the concept of violating behavior. Finally we characterize the type of properties that can be written in FVS and we formally introduce its syntax and semantics. © 2015 World Scientific Publishing Company.
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