Experiences with formal engineering: Model-based specification, implementation and testing of a software bus at Neopost

Sijtema, Marten; Belinfante, Axel; Stoelinga, Mariëlle; Marinelli, Lawrence

doi:10.1016/j.scico.2013.04.009

Cited by 8 publications

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“…Formal modelling often uncovers inconsistencies or omissions early in the design process [12]. Thus the act of modelling in itself already leads to an improved design that is much better understood.…”

Section: B Measures Of Interestmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling and certification for electric mobility

Graf-Brill

Hartmanns

Hermanns

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)

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The ENERGYBUS specification is the basis of an ongoing joint IEC/ISO standardisation effort focussing on public charging infrastructures for and interoperability of light electric vehicle components. This paper highlights how these efforts are supported by formal methods, starting at the design and specification level, up to establishing a certification framework for standards compliance of devices implementing the specification. The MODEST TOOLSET supports the model-based analysis methods needed in this context.

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Section: B Measures Of Interestmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling and certification for electric mobility

Graf-Brill

Hartmanns

Hermanns

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)

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“…In [18] a combination of model-based techniques is used to develop a software bus in a two-phase process. In the first phase, an mCRL2 model of the component is created and validated through simulation.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Industrial Experiences with a Formal DSL Semantics to Check the Correctness of DSL Artifacts

Keshishzadeh

Mooij

Hooman

2016

Electron. Proc. Theor. Comput. Sci.

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A domain specific language (DSL) abstracts from implementation details and is aligned with the way domain experts reason about a software component. The development of DSLs is usually centered around a grammar and transformations that generate implementation code or analysis models. The semantics of the language is often defined implicitly and in terms of a transformation to implementation code. In the presence of multiple transformations from the DSL, the correctness of the generated artifacts with respect to the semantics of the DSL is a relevant issue. We show that a formal semantics is essential for checking the correctness of the generated artifacts. We exploit the formal semantics in an industrial project and use formal techniques based on equivalence checking and model-based testing for validating the correctness of the generated artifacts. We report about our experience with this approach in an industrial development project.

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“…In addition, their paper does not discuss reusable models for the pub-sub style. In [27], the authors present their experiences of testing a software bus using MBT. Their models are represented using advanced process algebra specifications, which are used as the input for the JTorX tool [4] in order to automatically derive test cases on-the-fly.…”

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confidence: 99%

Model-based testing of NASA’s GMSEC, a reusable framework for ground system software

Gudmundsson

Schulze

Ganesan

et al. 2015

Innovations Syst Softw Eng

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We present an empirical study in which model-based testing (MBT) was applied to the software bus of NASA’s Goddard Mission Service Evolution Center (GMSEC), a reusable software framework. The goal was to study the feasibility of using MBT on a real-world software system that was designed to be flexible. GMSEC has three levels of flexibility: 1) loose application coupling through a software bus based on the publish–subscribe architectural style, 2) language independence by providing APIs to the bus in several programming languages, 3) middleware independence by providing wrappers for several middlewares that are supported by the software bus. The novelty brought forward in this paper is that one model and one set of generated test cases were used as the basis to test the software bus for behavioral consistency across multiple programming languages and middleware wrappers. The comparison of costs and benefits from using finite state machines (FSM) vs. extended FSMs (EFSM) when used for MBT on a real-world system is also novel. The case study shows that it was feasible, even for a programmer who neither knew MBT nor the system under test, to successfully apply MBT to a flexible system such as GMSEC and that MBT could within reasonable effort detect non-trivial defects in a fielded system

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Experiences with formal engineering: Model-based specification, implementation and testing of a software bus at Neopost

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

Modelling and certification for electric mobility

Modelling and certification for electric mobility

Industrial Experiences with a Formal DSL Semantics to Check the Correctness of DSL Artifacts

Model-based testing of NASA’s GMSEC, a reusable framework for ground system software

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