Leveraging formal verification tools for DSML users: a process modeling case study

Faiez Zalila (1) , Xavier Crégut (1, 2) , Marc Pantel (1, 2)

1 IRIT-ACADIE - Assistance à la Certification d’Applications DIstribuées et Embarquées
2 Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse)

In the last decade, Model Driven Engineering (MDE) has been used to improve the development of safety critical systems by providing early Validation and Verification (V&V) tools for Domain Specific Modeling Languages (DSML). Verification of behavioral models is mainly addressed by translating domain specific models to formal verification dedicated languages in order to use the sophisticated associated tools such as model-checkers. This approach has been successfully applied in many different contexts, but it has a major draw- back: the user has to interact with the formal tools. In this paper, we present an illustrated approach that allows the designer to formally express the expected behavioral properties using a user oriented language -- a temporal extension of OCL --, that is automatically translated into the formal language; and then to get feedback from the assessment of these properties using its domain language without having to deal with the formal verification language nor with the under- lying translational semantics. This work is based on the metamodeling pattern for executable DSML that extends the DSML metamodel to integrate concerns related to execution and behavior.

Mots clés: Domain specific modeling languages; Model formal verification; Behavioral properties; Translational semantics; Verification feedback

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation

Faiez Zalila, Xavier Crégut, Marc Pantel. Leveraging formal verification tools for DSML users: a process modeling case study. 2012. ⟨hal-00720917⟩