Modeling Families of Public Licensing Services: A Case Study

Software Product Lines (SPLs) enable the development of families of software systems by taking advantage of the commonalities and variabilities of the members of the family. Despite its many advantages, it is an unexplored area in the electronic government domain, an area with evident families of se...

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Published in2017 IEEE/ACM 5th International FME Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Engineering (FormaliSE) pp. 37 - 43
Main Authors Cledou, Guillermina, Barbosa, Luis Soares
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2017
Subjects
Adaptation models
Automata
Clocks
Credit cards
Licenses
Local government
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Summary:Software Product Lines (SPLs) enable the development of families of software systems by taking advantage of the commonalities and variabilities of the members of the family. Despite its many advantages, it is an unexplored area in the electronic government domain, an area with evident families of services, and with high demands to develop faster and better services to citizens and businesses while reducing costs. This paper discusses the need of formal methods to model SPLs for such domain. It presents a case study of a family of public licensing services modeled in UPPAAL and based on Featured Timed Automata, an extension of Timed Automata to model real-time SPLs. It analyzes the suitability of FTA to model distributed families of services, while provides hints on a possible enrichment of FTA to better support modularization and compositionality of services.
DOI:10.1109/FormaliSE.2017.8