Extracting Behavioral Models from Service Implementations

Abstract

Abstract:Formal behavioral models of software services are used as input by analysis tools which check their properties on hand of the given models. However, there is a gap between the real systems which have to be validated and their abstract models. This work proposes to bridge this gap by tools which extract behavioral models from software services implementations. The method proposed here aims at ensuring a general solution, applicable to several service technologies. The core of this solution consists of transforming the control flow graph of a communicating system into its corresponding behavioral model represented as an EFSM (Extended Finite State Machine). The extracted EFSM model can be automatically translated into an entity description in a formal security specification language for distributed systems. This will enable the use of formal analysis tools for real service implementations.