Bringing Coq into the World of GCM Distributed Applications

Electron. Proc. Theor. Comput. Sci.

Kulankhina

Liu³

et al. 2015

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This article provides formal definitions characterizing well-formed composition of components in order to guarantee their safe deployment and execution. Our work focuses on the structural aspects of component composition; it puts together most of the concepts common to many component models, but never formalized as a whole. Our formalization characterizes correct component architectures made of functional and non-functional aspects, both structured as component assemblies. Interceptor chains can be used for a safe and controlled interaction between the two aspects. Our well-formed components guarantee a set of properties ensuring that the deployed component system has a correct architecture and can run safely. Finally, those definitions constitute the formal basis for our Eclipsebased environment for the development and specification of component-based applications.

Section: Non-functional Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Verifying the correct composition of distributed components: Formalisation and Tool

Electron. Proc. Theor. Comput. Sci.

Kulankhina

Liu³

et al. 2015

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“…This work however, focuses on the protocol itself, and not in the behaviour of a reconfigurable application. Moreover, in [10] we presented Mefresa -a Mechanized Framework for Reasoning on Software Architectures. This work discusses a formal specification and a (re)configuration language for GCM architectures.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While this approach was successfully applied in [5], its practical effects for this case study remain as future work. 10 Moreover, handling such big state-spaces teaches us the importance of automation regarding model generation. Indeed, debugging can be a daunting task due to the inherent complexity and size of the involved models.…”

Section: Final Remarksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Formally Reasoning on a Reconfigurable Component-Based System — A Case Study for the Industrial World

Gaspar

Formal Aspects of Component Software

Madelaine

2014

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Abstract. The modularity offered by component-based systems made it one of the most employed paradigms in software engineering. Precise structural specification is a key ingredient that enables their verification and consequently their reliability. This gains special relevance for reconfigurable component-based systems. To this end, the Grid Component Model (GCM) provides all the means to define such reconfigurable component-based applications. In this paper we report our experience on the formal specification and verification of a reconfigurable GCM application as an industrial case study.

“…In [11], we presented Mefresa -a Coq [16] framework providing the means for the formal reasoning on software architectures. Here, we extend Mefresa with the ability to interpret Painless specifications, and provably correct functions computing their compliance with the GCM technical specification [10].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Painless Support for Static and Runtime Verification of Component-Based Applications

Gaspar

Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Madelaine

2015

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Architecture Description Languages (ADL) provide descriptions of a software system in terms of its structure. Such descriptions give a high-level overview and come from the need to cope with arbitrarily complex dependencies arising from software components. In this paper we present Painless, a novel ADL with a declarative trait supporting parametrized specifications and architectural reconfigurations. Moreover, we exhibit its reliable facet on its integration with ProActive -a middleware for distributed programming. This is achieved by building on top of Mefresa, a Coq framework for the reasoning on software architectures. We inherit its strong guarantees by extracting certified code, and subsequently integrating it in our toolchain.