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Use cases are a popular but informal technique used to define and analyse system behaviour. We introduce UC-B a plug-in for the Rodin platform (Event-B tool) that supports the authoring and management of use case specifications with both informal and formal components. The formal component is based on Event-B’s mathematical language. Once the behaviour of the use case is specified, UC-B automatically generates a corresponding Event-B model. The resulting model is then amenable to the Rodin verification tools that enable system level properties to be verified. By underpinning informal use case modelling with Event-B we are able to provide greater precision and formal assurance during the early stages of design.
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Tool information on UC-B: https://sites.google.com/site/rajivmkp/uc-b.
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The first author was supported by an Industrial CASE studentship which was funded by EPSRC and BAE Systems (EP/J501992), while the second and third authors were partially supported by EPSRC grants EP/J001058 and EP/N014758/1. We also would like to thank Benjamin Gorry, Rod Buchanan and Paul Marsland from BAE Systems.
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Murali, R., Ireland, A., Grov, G. (2016). UC-B: Use Case Modelling with Event-B. In: Butler, M., Schewe, KD., Mashkoor, A., Biro, M. (eds) Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z. ABZ 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9675. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33600-8_24
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