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European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications

ECMFA 2012: Modelling Foundations and Applications pp 384–399Cite as

OCL-Based Runtime Monitoring of Applications with Protocol State Machines

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This paper presents an approach that enables users to monitor and verify the behavior of an application running on a virtual machine (like the Java virtual machine) at an abstract model level. Models for object-oriented implementations are often used as a foundation for formal verification approaches. Our work allows the developer to verify whether a model corresponds to a concrete implementation by validating assumptions about model structure and behavior. In previous work, we focused on (a) the validation of static model properties by monitoring invariants and (b) basic dynamic properties by specifying pre- and postconditions of an operation. In this paper, we extend our work in order to verify and validate advanced dynamic properties, i.,e., properties of sequences of operation calls. This is achieved by integrating support for monitoring UML protocol state machines into our basic validation engine.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Database Systems Group, University of Bremen, D-28334, Bremen, Germany

    Lars Hamann, Oliver Hofrichter & Martin Gogolla

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  1. Universidad de Málaga, ETSI Informâtica, Campus de Teatinos, Bulevar Louis Pasteur 35, 29071, Málaga, Spain

    Antonio Vallecillo

  2. MetaCase, Ylistönmäentie 31, 40500, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Juha-Pekka Tolvanen

  3. Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Richard Petersens Plads, 2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

    Ekkart Kindler  & Harald Störrle  & 

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, YO10 5GH, York, United Kingdom

    Dimitris Kolovos

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Hamann, L., Hofrichter, O., Gogolla, M. (2012). OCL-Based Runtime Monitoring of Applications with Protocol State Machines. In: Vallecillo, A., Tolvanen, JP., Kindler, E., Störrle, H., Kolovos, D. (eds) Modelling Foundations and Applications. ECMFA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7349. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31491-9_29

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