UML Automatic Verification Tool with Formal Methods

  • Authors:
  • M. Encarnación Beato;Manuel Barrio-Solórzano;Carlos E. Cuesta;Pablo de la Fuente

  • Affiliations:
  • Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain;Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain;Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain;Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The use of the UML specification language is very widespread due to some of its features. However, the ever more complex systems of today require modeling methods that allow errors to be detected in the initial phases of development. The use of formal methods make such error detection possible but the learning cost is high. This paper presents a tool which avoids this learning cost, enabling the active behavior of a system expressed in UML to be verified in a completely automatic way by means of formal method techniques. It incorporates an assistant for the verification that acts as a user guide for writing properties so that she/he needs no knowledge of either temporal logic or the form of the specification obtained.