Automating scenario merging

  • Authors:
  • Loïc Hélouët;Thibaut Hénin;Christophe Chevrier

  • Affiliations:
  • IRISA/INRIA, Rennes Cedex, France;ENS Cachan, Bruz;France Télécom R&D, Lannion, France

  • Venue:
  • SAM'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on System Analysis and Modeling: language Profiles
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The design of distributed systems requirements often ends with a collection of redundant use cases or scenarios, each of which illustrating a peculiar functionality or a typical execution of the system. The actual behavior of the system under design can be considered as a superposition of all use cases. However, current scenario languages do not propose such superposition mechanism. An operator for Message Sequence Charts defined as a sum of MSCs was proposed recently. However, the designer must provide explicitly the common parts in operands (called the interface) to compute a sum. This paper proposes an automatic construction of this interface based on a heuristic search.