ROCL: New Extensions to OCL for Useful Verification of Flexible Software Systems

Hanen Grichi, Olfa Mosbahi, Mohamed Khalgui

2015

Abstract

The paper deals with the verification of reconfigurable real-time systems to be validated by using the Object Constraint Language (abbrev, OCL). A reconfiguration scenario is assumed to be any adaptation of the execution to the system environment according to user requirements. Nevertheless, since several behaviors can be redundant from an execution to another, the use of OCL is insufficient to specify the constraints to be satisfied by this kind of systems. We propose an extension of OCL, named Reconfigurable OCL, in order to optimize the specification and validation of constraints related to different execution scenarios of a flexible system. A metamodel of the new ROCL is proposed with formal syntax and semantics. This solution gains in term of the validation time and the quick expression of constraints. The paper’s contribution is applied to a case study that we propose to show the originality of this new language.

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Grichi H., Mosbahi O. and Khalgui M. (2015). ROCL: New Extensions to OCL for Useful Verification of Flexible Software Systems . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-114-4, pages 45-52. DOI: 10.5220/0005522700450052


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@conference{icsoft-ea15,
author={Hanen Grichi and Olfa Mosbahi and Mohamed Khalgui},
title={ROCL: New Extensions to OCL for Useful Verification of Flexible Software Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={45-52},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005522700450052},
isbn={978-989-758-114-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications - Volume 1: ICSOFT-EA, (ICSOFT 2015)
TI - ROCL: New Extensions to OCL for Useful Verification of Flexible Software Systems
SN - 978-989-758-114-4
AU - Grichi H.
AU - Mosbahi O.
AU - Khalgui M.
PY - 2015
SP - 45
EP - 52
DO - 10.5220/0005522700450052