Modeling and integrating aspects with UML activity diagrams
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Aspect-oriented modeling and verification with finite state machines
Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Special section on trust and reputation management in future computing systmes and applications
A formal approach to analyzing interference problems in aspect-oriented designs
UTP'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Unifying theories of programming
Context-aware services engineering: Models, transformations, and verification
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Testing aspect-oriented programs with finite state machines
Software Testing, Verification & Reliability
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Aspects can be used in a harmful way that invalidates desired properties. Rigorous specification and analysis of aspect design is thus highly desirable. This paper presents an approach to model-checking state-based specification of aspect-oriented design. It is based on a rigorous formalism for capturing crosscutting concerns with respect to the design-level state models of classes. An aspect model not only encapsulates pointcuts and advice, but also supports inter-model declarations, aspect precedence, and references to the behaviors of other classes in advice models. For verification purposes, we convert the aspect-oriented state model of a system into woven models and further transform the woven models and the non-base class models into FSP processes. The generated FSP processes are checked by the LTSA model checker against the desired system properties. We have applied our approach to the modeling and verification of a non-trivial aspect-oriented cruise control system. A total of 21 properties that provide a comprehensive coverage of the system requirements are successfully formalized and verified.