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Using SPIN and STeP to Verify Business Processes Specifications

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Perspectives of System Informatics (PSI 2003)

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Abstract

Business transactions are prone to failure and having to deal with unexpected situations. Some business process specification languages, e.g. StAC, introduce notions like compensation handling. Given the need of verification of correctness in business related software, it is important to fill in the gap between business process specification languages like StAC and the verification software already available.

We report on two of our previous attempts to develop a tool to allow verification of StAC specifications by using already existing systems, SPIN and STeP. We highlight some of the problems we faced during these attempts as they can prevent successful and widespread use of verification tools. Our experience can be used to make the available tools more versatile and hence, useful to a wider range of applications.

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  1. Declarative Systems and Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Juan C. Augusto, Michael Butler, Carla Ferreira & Stephen-John Craig

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  1. Technische Universität München, Germany

    Manfred Broy

  2. A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Alexandre V. Zamulin

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Augusto, J.C., Butler, M., Ferreira, C., Craig, SJ. (2004). Using SPIN and STeP to Verify Business Processes Specifications. In: Broy, M., Zamulin, A.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2890. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39866-0_22

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