Abstract interpretation-based verification of non-functional requirements

  • Authors:
  • Agostino Cortesi;Francesco Logozzo

  • Affiliations:
  • Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Venezia, Italy;École Polytechnique, Palaiseau cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • COORDINATION'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Coordination Models and Languages
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The paper investigates a formal approach to the verification of non functional software requirements, e.g. portability, time and space efficiency, dependability/robustness. The key-idea is the notion of observable, i.e., an abstraction of the concrete semantics when focusing on a behavioral property of interest. By applying an abstract interpretation-based static analysis of the source program, and by a suitable choice of abstract domains, it is possible to design formal and effective tools for non-functional requirements validation.