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Reducing the Model Checking Cost of Product Lines Using Static Analysis Techniques

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Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS 2011)

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Abstract

Software product line engineering is a paradigm to develop software applications using platforms and mass customization. Component based approaches play an important role in development of product lines: Components represent features, and different component combinations lead to different products. The number of combinations is exponential in the number of features, which makes the cost of product line model checking high. In this paper, we propose two techniques to reduce the number of component combinations that have to be verified. The first technique is using the static slicing approach to eliminate the features that do not affect the property. The second technique is analyzing the property and extracting sufficient conditions of property satisfaction/violation, to identify products that satisfy or violate the property without model checking. We apply these techniques on a vending machine case study to show the applicability and effectiveness of our approach. The results show that the number of generated states and time of model checking is reduced significantly using the proposed reduction techniques.

This research was in part supported by a grant form IPM. (No. CS1390-4-02).

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Karegar Ave., Tehran, Iran

    Hamideh Sabouri & Ramtin Khosravi

  2. School of Computer Science, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran

    Ramtin Khosravi

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    Peter Csaba Ölveczky

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Sabouri, H., Khosravi, R. (2012). Reducing the Model Checking Cost of Product Lines Using Static Analysis Techniques. In: Arbab, F., Ölveczky, P.C. (eds) Formal Aspects of Component Software. FACS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7253. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35743-5_18

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