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Nobody's perfect: interactive synthesis from parametrized real-time scenarios

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Stefan Henkler,

Florian KleinAuthors Info & Claims

SCESM '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Scenarios and state machines: models, algorithms, and tools

Pages 67 - 74

https://doi.org/10.1145/1138953.1138967

Published: 27 May 2006 Publication History

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As technical systems keep growing more complex and sophisticated, designing software for the safety-critical coordination between their components becomes increasingly difficult. Verifying and correcting these components already represents a significant part of the development process both with respect to time and cost. Scenario-based synthesis has been put forward as an approach to accelerate the transition from requirements to a correct, verified model. In (8), we have presented a synthesis technique for deriving pattern behavior from a set of timed scenarios with parametrized time constraints. The derived patterns can then be verified using our technique for the compositional formal verification of Mechatronic UML models as introduced in (10). In this paper, we argue that the practical relevance of a synthesis technique predominantly depends rather on its ability to identify and point to specification errors than the complexity of the scenarios it could, in theory, process, provided with a correct specification. By means of a case study, we introduce the different types of specification errors that may arise during synthesis. Using our tools for modeling, synthesis, and verification, we then show how we can identify and resolve these errors in the successive phases of an interactive development process.

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Gabrysiak GGiese HSeibel A(2010)Towards Next Generation Design Thinking: Scenario-Based Prototyping for Designing Complex Software Systems with Multiple UsersDesign Thinking10.1007/978-3-642-13757-0_13(219-236)Online publication date: 16-Nov-2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13757-0_13
Eckardt THenkler S(2010)Component behavior synthesis for critical systemsProceedings of the First international conference on Architecting Critical Systems10.1007/978-3-642-13556-9_4(52-71)Online publication date: 23-Jun-2010
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Henkler SGreenyer JHirsch MSchäfer WAlhawash KEckardt THeinzemann CLoffler RSeibel AGiese H(2009)Synthesis of timed behavior from scenarios in the Fujaba Real-Time Tool SuiteProceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070569(615-618)Online publication date: 16-May-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070569

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SCESM '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Scenarios and state machines: models, algorithms, and tools

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DOI:10.1145/1138953

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George Mason University, USA
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Gabrysiak GGiese HSeibel A(2010)Towards Next Generation Design Thinking: Scenario-Based Prototyping for Designing Complex Software Systems with Multiple UsersDesign Thinking10.1007/978-3-642-13757-0_13(219-236)Online publication date: 16-Nov-2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13757-0_13
Eckardt THenkler S(2010)Component behavior synthesis for critical systemsProceedings of the First international conference on Architecting Critical Systems10.1007/978-3-642-13556-9_4(52-71)Online publication date: 23-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-13556-9_4
Henkler SGreenyer JHirsch MSchäfer WAlhawash KEckardt THeinzemann CLoffler RSeibel AGiese H(2009)Synthesis of timed behavior from scenarios in the Fujaba Real-Time Tool SuiteProceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070569(615-618)Online publication date: 16-May-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICSE.2009.5070569

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