Formulating Model Verification Tasks Prover-Independently as UML Diagrams

Description

The success of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) relies on the quality of the employed models. Thus, quality assurance through validation and verification has a tradition within MDE. But model verification is typically done in the context of specialized approaches and provers. Therefore, verification tasks are expressed from the viewpoint of the chosen prover and approach requiring particular expertise and background knowledge. This contribution suggests to take a new view on verification tasks that is independent from the employed approach and prover. We propose to formulate verifications tasks in terms of the used modeling language itself, e.g. with UML and OCL. As prototypical example tasks we show how (a) questions concerning model consistency can be expressed with UML object diagrams and (b) issues regarding state reachability can be defined with UML sequence diagrams.

Period	19 Jun 2017
Event title	European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
Event type	Conference
Location	GermanyShow on map