Authors:
Benôıt Combemale
1
;
Pierre-Löıc Garoche
1
;
Xavier Crégut
1
;
Xavier Thirioux
1
and
Francois Vernadat
2
Affiliations:
1
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (CNRS UMR 5505), France
;
2
Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systemes (CNRS), France
Keyword(s):
Metamodelling, Properties Validation, Verification, Temporal OCL, Process Model, Petri Nets, LTL, Models Semantics, Model Transformation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Software Engineering
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
More and more, models, through Domain Specific Languages (DSL), tend to be the solution to define complex systems. Expressing properties specific to these metamodels and checking them appear as an urgent need. Until now, the only complete industrial solutions that are available consider structural properties such as the ones that could be expressed in OCL. There are although some attempts on behavioural properties for DSL.
This paper addresses a method to specify and then check temporal properties over models. The case study is SIMPLEPDL, a process metamodel. We propose a way to use a temporal extension of OCL, TOCL, to express properties. We specify a models transformation to Petri Nets and LTL formulae for both the process model and its associated temporal properties. We check these properties using a model checker and enrich the model with the analysis results. This work is a first step towards a generic framework to specify and effectively check temporal properties over arbitrar
y models.
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