An approach to software system modelling and analysis

  • Authors:
  • William E. Riddle

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, U.S.A.

  • Venue:
  • Computer Languages
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

A scheme is presented for the modelling of a software system's operation and it is shown how this scheme may be used in software system analysis. The scheme is primarily intended for the description of large-scale, complex software systems having (actual or conceptual) parallelism. The modelling scheme is shown equivalent to a large number of previously defined schemes for modelling systems with concurrency. An algorithm is given for deriving a non-procedural representation of a system's behavior from a model of its operation and several ways are outlined by which analysis may be performed using the information derived by such an algorithm.