Patterns in property specifications for finite-state verification
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
The Rhapsody UML Verification Environment
SEFM '04 Proceedings of the Software Engineering and Formal Methods, Second International Conference
UML-B: Formal modeling and design aided by UML
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis
Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis
Verification of Aspect-UML models using alloy
Proceedings of the 10th international workshop on Aspect-oriented modeling
Generating class contracts from UML protocol statemachines
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering, Verification and Validation
Views on behaviour protocols and their semantic foundation
CALCO'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Algebra and coalgebra in computer science
Verification and Trade-Off Analysis of Security Properties in UML System Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
CD2Alloy: class diagrams analysis using alloy revisited
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems
Translating alloy specifications to UML class diagrams annotated with OCL
SEFM'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Software engineering and formal methods
Specification of invariability in OCL
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
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A UML Protocol State Machine (PSM) is a behavioral diagram for the specification of the external behavior of a class, interface or component. PSMs have been used in the software development process for different purposes, such as requirements analysis and testing. However, like other UML diagrams, they are often difficult to validate and verify, specially when combined with other artifacts, such as Object Constraint Language (OCL) specifications. This drawback can be overcome by application of an off-the-shelf formal method, namely one supporting automatic validation and verification. Among those, we have the increasingly popular Alloy, based on a simple relational flavor of first-order logic. This paper presents a model transformation from PSMs, optionally complemented with OCL specifications, to Alloy. Not only it enables automatic verification and validation of PSMs, but also a smooth integration of Alloy in current software development practices.