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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Jeremy Bryans, Professor John Fitzgerald, Emeritus Professor Alexander RomanovskyORCiD
Distributed information systems are critical to the functioning of many businesses; designing them to be dependable is a challenging but important task. We report our experience in using formal methods to enhance processes and tools for development of business information software based on service-oriented architectures. In our work, which takes place in an industrial setting, we focus on the configuration of middleware, verifying application-level requirements in the presence of faults. In pilot studies provided by SAP, we used the Event-B formalism and the open Rodin tools platform to prove properties of models of business protocols and expose weaknesses of certain middleware configurations with respect to particular protocols. We then extended the approach to use models automatically generated from diagrammatic design tools, opening the possibility of seamless integration with current development environments. Increased automation in the verification process, through domain-specific models and theories, is a goal for future work.
Author(s): Bryans J, Fitzgerald JS, Romanovsky A, Roth A
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 14th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
Year of Conference: 2009
Pages: 68-77
Date deposited: 24/05/2010
Publisher: IEEE
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.2009.29
DOI: 10.1109/ICECCS.2009.29
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9780769537023
