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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Automated Architecture-Based Verification of Safety-Critical Systems

Jaradat, Omar Tawffeeq Saleem January 2011 (has links)
Safety-critical systems require high quality and dependability levels, where system correctness and safety are major features to avoid any severe outcome. Time and cost are also important challenges that are imposed during the development process. Describing the behavior of a system in a high level provides a realistic vision and anticipation of the system. This presents a valuable opportunity for verifying the system before wasting the intended resources to develop the system. Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) provide the ability to comprise and represent the system level details of components, interactions and configuration. Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) as a family member of ADLs proved its effectiveness in designing software intensive systems. In this report, we present a case study to validate “An Architecture-Based Verification Technique for AADL Specifications”. The technique involves a combination of model checking and model-based testing approaches adapted to an architectural perspective. The objectives of the verification process are 1) to ensure completeness and consistency of an AADL specification, and 2) to ensure conformance of an implementation with respect to its AADL specification. The technique has only been applied to small examples, and the goal of this thesis work is to validate it against a safety-critical system developed by a major vehicle manufacturer. Validation of the technique begins by investigating the system and specifying it in AADL. The defined verification criteria are subsequently applied to the AADL specification which drives the verification process. The case study presents interesting results while performing the model checking (the completeness and consistency checking). Conformance testing, on the other hand, could not be performed on the implemented system but is an interesting topic for future work.

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