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Automatic Verification of a Behavioural Subset of UML Statechart Diagrams Using the SPIN Model-checker

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Formal Aspects of Computing

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Statechart Diagrams provide a graphical notation for describing dynamic aspects of system behaviour within the Unified Modelling Language (UML). In this paper we present a translation from a subset of UML Statechart Diagrams - covering essential aspects of both concurrent behaviour, like sequentialisation, parallelism, non-determinism and priority, and state refinement - into PROMELA, the specification language of the SPIN model checker. SPIN is one of the most advanced analysis and verification tools available nowadays. Our translation allows for the automatic verification of UML Statechart Diagrams. The translation is simple, proven correct, and promising in terms of state space representation efficiency.

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  1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Istituto CNUCE, Italy, , , , , , IT

    Diego Latella & Mieke Massink

  2. Technical University of Budapest, Dept. of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest, Hungary, , , , , , HU

    Istvan Majzik

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Received September 1999 / Accepted in revised form February 2000

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Latella, D., Majzik, I. & Massink, M. Automatic Verification of a Behavioural Subset of UML Statechart Diagrams Using the SPIN Model-checker. Form Aspects Comput 11, 637–664 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001659970003

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