Execution Constraint Verification of Exception Handling on UML Sequence Diagrams

Selim Ciraci; Hasan Sözer; Mehmet Aksit; Wilke Havinga

doi:10.1109/SSIRI.2011.13

Execution Constraint Verification of Exception Handling on UML Sequence Diagrams

Selim Ciraci, Hasan Sözer, Mehmet Aksit, Wilke Havinga

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Exception handling alters the control flow of the program. As such, errors introduced in exception handling code may influence the overall program in undesired ways. To detect such errors early and thereby decrease the programming costs, it is worthwhile to consider exception handling at design level. Preferably, design models must be extended to incorporate exception handling behavior and the control flow must be verified accordingly. Common practices for verification require a formal model and semantics of the design. Defining semantics and manually converting design models to formal models are costly. We propose an approach for verifying exception handling in UML design models, where we extend UML with exception handling notations, define execution and exception handling semantics, and automatically transform UML models to a formal model. The formal model is used for generating execution paths. Constraints are specified (as temporal logic formulas) on execution paths and are verified.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Fifth IEEE International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement, SSIRI 2011
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	31-40
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4577-0780-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SSIRI.2011.13
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2011

Keywords

Graph transformations
Exception handling
Object-oriented design
Fault tolerance
Design verification

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Execution Constraint Verification of Exception Handling on UML Sequence Diagrams. / Ciraci, Selim; Sözer, Hasan; Aksit, Mehmet; Havinga, Wilke.

Fifth IEEE International Conference on Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement, SSIRI 2011. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Computer Society, 2011. p. 31-40.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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