A case study in combining formal verification and model-driven engineering

Selma Djeddai (1) , Mohamed Mezghiche (2) , Martin Strecker (1)

1 IRIT-ACADIE - Assistance à la Certification d’Applications DIstribuées et Embarquées
2 LIMOSE - Laboratoire d’Informatique de Modélisation d’Optimisation et de Systèmes Electroniques [Boumerdes]

Formal methods are increasingly used in software engineering. They offer a formal frame that guarentees the correctness of developments. However, they use complex notations that might be difficult to understand for unaccustomed users. It thus becomes interesting to formally specify the core components of a language, implement a provably correct development, and manipulate its components in a graphical/ textual editor. This paper constitutes a first step towards using Model Driven Engineering (MDE) technology in an interactive proof development. It presents a transformation process from functional data structures, commonly used in proof assistants, to Ecore Models. The transformation is based on an MDE methodology. The resulting meta-models are used to generate graphical or textual editors. We will take an example to illustrate our approach: a simple domain specific language. This guiding example is a Java-like language enriched with assertions.

Mots clés: Model driven engineering; Model transformation; Formalmethods; Verification

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Systèmes embarqués; Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Modélisation et simulation

Selma Djeddai, Mohamed Mezghiche, Martin Strecker. A case study in combining formal verification and model-driven engineering. International Workshop on Algebraic, Logical, and Algorithmic Methods of System Modeling, Specification and Verification (SMSV 2012) in : 8th International Conference on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications - ICTERI 2012, Jun 2012, Kherson, Ukraine. pp.275-289. ⟨hal-01264523⟩