Objects often define usage protocols that clients must follow in order for these objects to work properly. Aliasing makes it notoriously difficult to check whether clients and i...
Abstract—Software Product Lines (SPL) are difficult to validate due to combinatorics induced by variability across their features. This leads to combinatorial explosion of the n...
Gilles Perrouin, Sagar Sen, Jacques Klein, Benoit ...
One of the most exciting and promising approaches to ensure the correctness of critical systems is software model checking, which considers real code, written with standard program...
Abstract. The UML-based Specification Environment (USE) tool supports the syntactic analysis, type checking, consistency checking, and dynamic validation of invariants and pre-/pos...
Wuliang Sun, Eunjee Song, Paul C. Grabow, Devon M....
Developers of distributed systems routinely construct discrete-event simulations to help understand and evaluate the behavior of inter-component protocols. Simulations are abstrac...
Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzaniga, Alexande...