Automated Validation & Verification of UML/OCL Models Using Satisfiability Solvers

Description

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of UML/OCL methods and design flow, for automatic validation and verification of hardware and software systems. While the presented flow focuses on using satisfiability solvers, the authors also describe how these methods can be used for any other automatic reasoning engine. Additionally, the design flow described is applied to a broad variety of validation and verification tasks. The authors also cover briefly how non-functional properties such as timing constraints can be handled with the described flow. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction (Nils Przigoda, Robert Wille, Judith Przigoda, Rolf Drechsler)....Pages 1-5 A Formal Interpretation of UML/OCL (Nils Przigoda, Robert Wille, Judith Przigoda, Rolf Drechsler)....Pages 7-23 A Symbolic Formulation for Models (Nils Przigoda, Robert Wille, Judith Przigoda, Rolf Drechsler)....Pages 25-94 Structural Aspects (Nils Przigoda, Robert Wille, Judith Przigoda, Rolf Drechsler)....Pages 95-123 Behavioral Aspects (Nils Przigoda, Robert Wille, Judith Przigoda, Rolf Drechsler)....Pages 125-157 Timing Aspects (Nils Przigoda, Robert Wille, Judith Przigoda, Rolf Drechsler)....Pages 159-181 Reducing Instance Sizes with Ground Setting Properties (Nils Przigoda, Robert Wille, Judith Przigoda, Rolf Drechsler)....Pages 183-199 Re-utilizing Verification Results of UML/OCL Models (Nils Przigoda, Robert Wille, Judith Przigoda, Rolf Drechsler)....Pages 201-233 Conclusion (Nils Przigoda, Robert Wille, Judith Przigoda, Rolf Drechsler)....Pages 235-237 Back Matter ....Pages 239-255