Towards the verification of multi-diagram UML models

Abstract

UML is a general-purpose modeling language that offers a heterogeneous set of diagrams to describe the different views of a software system. While there seems to be a general consensus on the semantics of some individual diagrams, the composite semantics of the different views is still an open problem. During my PhD I am considering a significant and consistent set of UML diagrams, where timed-related properties can be modeled carefully, and I am ascribing them with a formal semantics based on metric temporal logic. The use of logic is aimed to help capture the composite semantics of the different views efficiently. The result is then used to feed a bounded model/satisfiability checker to allow users to verify these systems, even from the initial phases of the design. The final goal is to realize an advanced modeling framework where users can exploit both a well-known modeling notation and advanced verification capabilities seamlessly.

Flexible modular formalization of UML sequence diagrams

“…Supporting different (all) UML diagrams and diverse semantics is the main goal of our framework Corretto 1 [9]. In this paper we focus on Sequence Diagrams, which are often used to capture the most significant scenarios that describe how the components of a complex system interact.…”