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We consider operation coverage of OCL operation specifications and invariants in class diagrams with respect to sequence diagrams. The coverage criteria are based on the operations that are executed from the sequence diagrams and their asserted OCL subexpressions. We propose an algorithm that automatically generates a set of sequence diagrams in order to maximise these coverage criteria. A model finder is leveraged for this purpose. As a result, also operations and constraints can be determined that can never be executed and asserted, respectively. Our algorithm has been implemented in the UML specification tool USE.
This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (01IW13001) within the project SPECifIC, by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (DR 287/23-1), and by the University of Bremen’s graduate school SyDe, funded by the German Excellence Initiative.
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Soeken, M., Seiter, J., Drechsler, R. (2015). Coverage of OCL Operation Specifications and Invariants. In: Blanchette, J., Kosmatov, N. (eds) Tests and Proofs. TAP 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9154. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21215-9_12
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