An approach for specification construction using property-preserving refinement patterns

Authors:
Junhua Ding;Lian Mo;Xudong He
Affiliations:
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC;Florida International University, Miami, FL;Florida International University, Miami, FL
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This paper proposes a refinement method based on a set of formal refinement patterns for software architecture design using Software Architecture Model (SAM). First, an approach for specification construction through property-preserving refinement patterns is discussed. The refinement patterns are categorized into connector refinement, component refinement and high-level Petri nets refinement. Then, modeling and refining a life insurance system is used to demonstrate how to applying the refinement patterns for software architecture design using SAM. The results demonstrate that a refinement method is an effective way to develop a high assurance system. Our result can be easily generalized to other formal methods as well.