Formalised EMFTVM bytecode language for sound verification of model transformations

Model-driven engineering is an effective approach for addressing the full life cycle of software development. Model transformation is widely acknowledged as one of its central ingredients. With the increasing complexity of model transformations, it is urgent to develop verification tools that preven...

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Published inSoftware and systems modeling Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 1197 - 1225
Main Authors Cheng, Zheng, Monahan, Rosemary, Power, James F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.10.2018
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Coding
Compilers
Computer Science
Electronic design automation
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Interpreters
IT in Business
Language
Life cycle analysis
Life cycle engineering
Programming Languages
Programming Techniques
Prototyping
Regular Paper
Semantics
Software development
Software Engineering
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
Transformations
EMFTVM
Boogie
Model transformation verification
Intermediate verification language
MDE
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Summary:Model-driven engineering is an effective approach for addressing the full life cycle of software development. Model transformation is widely acknowledged as one of its central ingredients. With the increasing complexity of model transformations, it is urgent to develop verification tools that prevent incorrect transformations from generating faulty models. However, the development of sound verification tools is a non-trivial task, due to unimplementable or erroneous execution semantics encoded for the target model transformation language. In this work, we develop a formalisation for the EMFTVM bytecode language by using the Boogie intermediate verification language. It ensures the model transformation language has an implementable execution semantics by reliably prototyping the implementation of the model transformation language. It also ensures the absence of erroneous execution semantics encoded for the target model transformation language by using a translation validation approach.
ISSN:1619-1366
1619-1374
DOI:10.1007/s10270-016-0553-x