A UML 2.0 Activity Diagrams/CSP Integrated Approach for Modeling and Verification of Software Systems

Abstract

This paper proposes an approach integrating UML 2.0 Activity Diagrams (UML2-AD) and Communicating Sequential Process (CSP) for modeling and verication of software systems. A UML2-AD is used for modeling a software system while CSP is used for verication purposes. The proposed approach consists of another way of transforming UML2-AD models to Communicating Sequential Process (CSP) models. It focuses also on checking the correctness of some properties of the transformation itself. These properties are specified using Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) and verified using the GROOVE model checker. This approach is based on Model Driven Engineering (MDE). The meta-modelling is realized using AToMPM tool while the model transformation and the correctness of its properties are realized using GROOVE tool. Finally, we illustrated this approach through a case study.

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“…State diagrams are given a CSP semantic in [28], where activity diagrams are formalized in CSP in [29] and [30]. This last formalization has been implemented in [31] by using diverse graph transformation tools, in [32] by using AToM 3 tool, and in [33] by using AToMPM [34] tool for meta-modeling and GROOVE [35] tool for transformation and properties verification. [36] proposed a graph transformation approach to generate Maude specifications from UML activity diagrams using AToM 3 tool.…”

Automatic Bridge between BPMN Models and UML Activity Diagrams based on Graph Transformation

“…This verification provides feedback on the properties of the source model (BPM modeled in the input). It is noteworthy that we use the techniques of MDE for model transformation as well as their verifications by different specifications such as those that were presented in [15,16,24,26,33]. Furthermore, we can use generation test cases like those that were presented in [22].…”