A logical verification methodology for service-oriented computing

  • Authors:
  • Alessandro Fantechi;Stefania Gnesi;Alessandro Lapadula;Franco Mazzanti;Rosario Pugliese;Francesco Tiezzi

  • Affiliations:
  • Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy;Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione “A. Faedo”, Italy;Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy;Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione “A. Faedo”, Italy;Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy;Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We introduce a logical verification methodology for checking behavioral properties of service-oriented computing systems. Service properties are described by means of SocL, a branching-time temporal logic that we have specifically designed for expressing in an effective way distinctive aspects of services, such as, acceptance of a request, provision of a response, correlation among service requests and responses, etc. Our approach allows service properties to be expressed in such a way that they can be independent of service domains and specifications. We show an instantiation of our general methodology that uses the formal language COWS to conveniently specify services and the expressly developed software tool CMC to assist the user in the task of verifying SocL formulas over service specifications. We demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our methodology by means of the specification and analysis of a case study in the automotive domain.