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We present a novel approach which facilitates formal verification of component-based software application families using model checking. This approach enables effective compositional reasoning by facilitating formulation of component properties and their environment assumptions. This approach integrates bottom-up component verification and top-down system verification based on the concept of application family architectures (AFA). The core elements of an AFA are architectural styles and reusable components. Reusable components of a family are defined in the context of its architectural styles and their correctness properties are verified in bottom-up component compositions. Top-down system verification utilizes architectural styles to guide decomposition of properties of a system into properties of its components and formulation of assumptions for the component properties. The component properties are reused if already verified; otherwise, they are verified top-down recursively. Architectural style guided property decomposition facilitates reuse of verified component properties. Preliminary case studies have shown that our approach achieves order-of-magnitude reduction on verification complexities and realizes major verification reuse.
This research was partially supported by NSF grants IIS-0438967 and CNS-0509354.
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Xie, F., Browne, J.C. (2006). Verification of Component-Based Software Application Families. In: Gorton, I., et al. Component-Based Software Engineering. CBSE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4063. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11783565_4
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