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Automatic Checking of Component Protocols in Component-Based Systems

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Software Composition (SC 2006)

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We statically check whether each component in a component-based system is used according to its protocol and provide counterexamples if such a check fails. The protocol is given by a finite state machine specifying legal sequences of procedure calls of the interface of a component. The main contribution is that we can deal with call-backs without any restrictions. We achieved this by using context-free grammars instead of finite state machines to describe the use of components.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06099, Halle/Saale, Germany

    Wolf Zimmermann

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Zimmermann, W., Schaarschmidt, M. (2006). Automatic Checking of Component Protocols in Component-Based Systems. In: Löwe, W., Südholt, M. (eds) Software Composition. SC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4089. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11821946_1

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