LSCs: Breathing Life into Message Sequence Charts
Formal Methods in System Design
Negative scenarios for implied scenario elicitation
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Triggered message sequence charts
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Liveness with (0, 1, infty)-Counter Abstraction
CAV '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Come, Let's Play: Scenario-Based Programming Using LSC's and the Play-Engine
Come, Let's Play: Scenario-Based Programming Using LSC's and the Play-Engine
Formal Aspects of Computing
LICS '04 Proceedings of the 19th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Polymorphic Scenario-Based Specification Models: Semantics and Applications
MODELS '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Mining message sequence graphs
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Specification mining in concurrent and distributed systems
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Specification mining in concurrent and distributed systems
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Symbolic Message Sequence Charts
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Inferring class level specifications for distributed systems
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Polymorphic scenario-based specification models: semantics and applications
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
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Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are a widely used visual formalism for scenario-based specifications of distributed reactive systems. In its conventional usage, an MSC captures an interaction snippet between concrete objects in the system. This leads to voluminous specifications when the system contains several objectsthat are behaviorally similar. In this paper, we propose a lightweight syntactic and semantic extension of MSCs, called Symbolic MSCs or SMSCs, where an MSC lifeline can denote some/all objects from a collection. Our extensions give us substantially more modeling power. Moreover, we present a symbolic execution semantics for (structured collections of) our extended MSCs. This allows us to validate MSC-based system models capturing interactions between large, or even unbounded, number of objects. Since our extensions are only concerned with MSC lifelines, we believe that they can be integrated into existing standards such as UML 2.0.