Overcoming Software System Misuse by Domain Knowledge

Reuven Gallant, Leah Goldin

2013

Abstract

Often a perfectly functioning software system is misused causing undesirable and expensive consequences. The quest of this work is to prepare a priori the system for eventual extensions that – while not directly relevant to the system purpose – enable overcoming the consequences of its misuse. This is attained by means of domain knowledge to model the system misuse, beyond the original system model. In particular, if the behaviors of such a system have been modeled by statechart diagrams, these diagrams can be reengineered to suitably extend them, in order to correct the misbehavior consequences.

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Gallant R. and Goldin L. (2013). Overcoming Software System Misuse by Domain Knowledge . In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-76-1, pages 62-69. DOI: 10.5220/0004641700620069


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sky13,
author={Reuven Gallant and Leah Goldin},
title={Overcoming Software System Misuse by Domain Knowledge},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={62-69},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004641700620069},
isbn={978-989-8565-76-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2013)
TI - Overcoming Software System Misuse by Domain Knowledge
SN - 978-989-8565-76-1
AU - Gallant R.
AU - Goldin L.
PY - 2013
SP - 62
EP - 69
DO - 10.5220/0004641700620069