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ObjectCheck: A Model Checking Tool for Executable Object-oriented Software System Designs

ObjectCheck: A Model Checking Tool for Executable Object-oriented Software System Designs. Fei Xie and James C. Browne Dept. of Computer Sciences Univ. of Texas at Austin. Vladimir Levin Bell-Labs Lucent Technologies. Presentation Agenda. Background and Overview of ObjectCheck

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ObjectCheck: A Model Checking Tool for Executable Object-oriented Software System Designs

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  1. ObjectCheck: A Model Checking Tool for Executable Object-oriented Software System Designs Fei Xie and James C. Browne Dept. of Computer Sciences Univ. of Texas at Austin Vladimir Levin Bell-Labs Lucent Technologies

  2. Presentation Agenda • Background and Overview of ObjectCheck • Demonstration of ObjectCheck • More Case Studies • Summary and Future Work

  3. Motivations • Executable OO modeling languages are widely applied to specify software system designs. • Model Checking may improve the reliabilities of executable OO software system designs. • State-of-the-art model checkers are not directly applicable to executable OO system designs. • A tool supporting application of model checking to executable OO system designs is needed.

  4. xUML: An Executable OO Modeling Language • Executable dialect of UML; • Expressive system and class hierarchies; • Extended Moore state machines as state models; • Each state may have an associated state action; • Each state action is run-to-completion; • Asynchronous interleaving execution semantics. • A system execution is an asynchronous interleaving of the executions of state models in the system.

  5. Designer Property xUML Model Error Report S/R Query S/R Model Error Track Architecture and Workflow of ObjectCheck Property Specification Interface xUML IDE Error Visualizer xUML-to-S/R Translator Error Report Generator COSPAN Model Checker

  6. Development of ObjectCheck • Developed in conjunction with SDLCheck; • SDLCheck is an SDL model checking tool developed by Robert P. Kurshan, Vladimir Levin, and Husnu Yenigun of Bell-labs. • Reuses modules from SDLCheck, such as optimization modules that conduct SPOR. • SPOR (Static Partial Order Reduction).

  7. Presentation Agenda • Background and Overview of ObjectCheck • Demonstration of ObjectCheck • More Case Studies • Summary and Future Work

  8. Case Study for Demonstration • Classic Dining Philosophers Problem • More realistic case studies will be shown after the demonstration.

  9. Step-by-Step Demonstration Designer Property Specification Interface xUML IDE Error Visualizer Property xUML Model Error Report xUML-to-S/R Translator Error Report Generator S/R Query S/R Model Error Track COSPAN Model Checker

  10. Step-by-Step Demonstration Designer Property Specification Interface xUML IDE Error Visualizer Property xUML Model Error Report xUML-to-S/R Translator Error Report Generator S/R Query S/R Model Error Track COSPAN Model Checker

  11. Step-by-Step Demonstration Designer Property Specification Interface xUML IDE Error Visualizer Property xUML Model Error Report xUML-to-S/R Translator Error Report Generator S/R Query S/R Model Error Track COSPAN Model Checker

  12. Step-by-Step Demonstration Designer Property Specification Interface xUML IDE Error Visualizer Property xUML Model Error Report xUML-to-S/R Translator Error Report Generator S/R Query S/R Model Error Track COSPAN Model Checker

  13. Step-by-Step Demonstration Designer Property Specification Interface xUML IDE Error Visualizer Property xUML Model Error Report xUML-to-S/R Translator Error Report Generator S/R Query S/R Model Error Track COSPAN Model Checker

  14. Step-by-Step Demonstration Designer Property Specification Interface xUML IDE Error Visualizer Property xUML Model Error Report xUML-to-S/R Translator Error Report Generator S/R Query S/R Model Error Track COSPAN Model Checker

  15. Presentation Agenda • Background and Overview of ObjectCheck • Demonstration of ObjectCheck • More Case Studies • Summary and Future Work

  16. More Case Studies • NASA Robot Controller • A typical control-intensive embedded systems; • Presented at FASE 2001 by Natasha Sharygina; • Online Ticket Sale System • A typical commercial transaction systems; • Presented at FASE 2002; • Focus: Integrated state space reduction.

  17. NASA Robot Controller (Class Diagram)

  18. NASA Robot Controller(A State Model)

  19. An Online Ticket Sale System (Class Diagram)

  20. An Online Ticket Sale System (A State Model)

  21. Some Verification Statistics of Online Ticket Sale System • Verification of a liveness property • After an agent is assigned to a customer, eventually the agent will be released. • Statistics related to state space reductions

  22. Related Work • Most closely related work • UML Model Checking toolset from University of Michigan • vUML tool from Åbo Akademi University • Both tools employ UML dialects with ad-hoc execution semantics and without well-defined action semantics.

  23. Summary and Future Work • ObjectCheck • Combines industrial software design and development environments and model checkers with research tools; • Provides comprehensive automation support for model checking xUML models; • Has enabled verification of non-trivial software system designs modeled in xUML. • Future work is focused on enhancing state space reduction capability of ObjectCheck.

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