Dependability modeling and analysis of software systems specified with UML

  • Authors:
  • Simona Bernardi;José Merseguer;Dorina C. Petriu

  • Affiliations:
  • Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain;Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain;Carleton University, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The goal is to survey dependability modeling and analysis of software and systems specified with UML, with focus on reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS). From the literature published in the last decade, 33 approaches presented in 43 papers were identified. They are evaluated according to three sets of criteria regarding UML modeling issues, addressed dependability characteristics, and quality assessment of the surveyed approaches. The survey shows that more works are devoted to reliability and safety, fewer to availability and maintainability, and none to integrity. Many methods support early life-cycle phases (from requirements to design). More research is needed for tool development to automate the derivation of analysis models and to give feedback to designers.