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International Symposium on Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance

AGTIVE 2007: Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance pp 361–376Cite as

Verification and Synthesis of OCL Constraints Via Topology Analysis

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On the basis of a case-study, we demonstrate the usefulness of topology invariants for model-driven systems development. Considering a graph grammar semantics for a relevant fragment of UML, where a graph represents an object diagram, allows us to apply Topology Analysis, a particular abstract interpretation of graph grammars. The outcome of this analysis is a finite and concise over-approximation of all possible reachable object diagrams, the so-called topology invariant. We discuss how topology invariants can be used to verify that constraints on a given model are respected by the behaviour and how they can be viewed as synthesised constraints providing insight into the dynamic behaviour of the model.

This work was partly supported by the German Research Council (DFG) as part of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre “Automatic Verification and Analysis of Complex Systems” (SFB/TR 14 AVACS).

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  1. Technical University of Munich, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Jörg Bauer

  2. Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Werner Damm, Tobe Toben & Bernd Westphal

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Bauer, J., Damm, W., Toben, T., Westphal, B. (2008). Verification and Synthesis of OCL Constraints Via Topology Analysis. In: Schürr, A., Nagl, M., Zündorf, A. (eds) Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance. AGTIVE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5088. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89020-1_25

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