Effective verification of systems with a dynamic number of components
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Specification and verification of component-based systems: 6th Joint Meeting of the European Conference on Software Engineering and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
Perspectives in component-based software engineering
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Software Engineering in east and south europe
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To use verification tools for reliability analysis of a software component, it is desirable to specify the behavior of the component by a finite-state model. This is often impossible at design time if the component practices unbounded parallelism. In that case, the behavior of the component widely depends on the environment the component is instantiated in. Unfortunately, covering all possible environments results in an infinite-state model.In this paper, we introduce a solution based on the concept of template-to-model transformation: at design time, a developer describes the behavior of the component by a behavior template, which is automatically transformed into a concrete behavior model when the component is instantiated in an environment. As the concrete behavior model is finite-state, it is a suitable input for verification tools.