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Runtime verification is one systematic strategy for analytical quality assurance of complex distributed systems. Model-based development approaches are promising in this context because they provide models of manageable size and complexity describing the systems under development, enabling systematic engineering processes for all development phases on various levels of detail. For runtime verification, executing implementations are monitored continuously for correctness against the specification. This requires the insertion of monitors into the software under test to gather information on system states and their evolution. In this paper we describe how we use aspect-oriented development techniques to enhance existing code with runtime monitors checking the interaction behavior of applications against their specifications. We use Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) to specify the interaction behavior of distributed systems and as basis for automatic runtime monitor generation. This uniquely ties interaction interface specifications with the monitoring infrastructure for their realization. We explain the monitor generation procedure and tool set using a case study from the embedded automotive systems domain, the Central Locking System (CLS).
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Krüger, I.H., Meisinger, M., Menarini, M. (2007). Runtime Verification of Interactions: From MSCs to Aspects. In: Sokolsky, O., Taşıran, S. (eds) Runtime Verification. RV 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4839. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77395-5_6
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