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STAIRS is an approach to the compositional development of sequence diagrams supporting the specification of mandatory as well as potential behavior. In order to express the necessary distinction between black-box and glass-box refinement, an extension of the semantic framework with three event messages is introduced. A concrete syntax is also proposed. The proposed extension is especially useful when describing time constraints. The resulting approach, referred to as Timed STAIRS, is formally underpinned by denotational trace semantics. A trace is a sequence of three kinds of events: events for transmission, reception and consumption. We argue that such traces give the necessary expressiveness to capture the standard UML interpretation of sequence diagrams as well as the black-box interpretation found in classical formal methods.
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Haugen, Ø., Husa, K.E., Runde, R.K., Stølen, K. (2005). Why Timed Sequence Diagrams Require Three-Event Semantics. In: Leue, S., Systä, T.J. (eds) Scenarios: Models, Transformations and Tools. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3466. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11495628_1
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