A method for detecting unusual defects in enterprise system using model checking techniques

Authors:
Yoshitaka Aoki;Saeko Matsuura
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute Technology, Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Saitama, Japan;Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute Technology, Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Saitama, Japan
Venue:
SEPADS'11 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Software engineering, parallel and distributed systems
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This paper proposes a method based on model checking for detecting hard-to-discover defects in enterprise systems. Source codes are transformed into an appropriate phased abstract model so that we can observe the phenomena. UPPAAL, which is a typical model checking tool, makes an exhaustive checking of the model and provides a result whether the model can reach the specified state or not. We have developed a supporting tool to narrow the range of model checking and to generate UPPAAL model automatically. We discuss our method in detail on the basis of the results of a case study.