Towards a Pattern-based Automatic Generation of Logical Specifications for Software Models
This addresses the difficulty of obtaining complete logical specifications for software verification, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing workflow patterns.
The paper tackles the problem of automatically generating logical specifications from software models by proposing a method that transforms predefined workflow patterns into temporal logic formulas, enabling deductive reasoning for correctness verification.
The work relates to the automatic generation of logical specifications, considered as sets of temporal logic formulas, extracted directly from developed software models. The extraction process is based on the assumption that the whole developed model is structured using only predefined workflow patterns. A method of automatic transformation of workflow patterns to logical specifications is proposed. Applying the presented concepts enables bridging the gap between the benefits of deductive reasoning for the correctness verification process and the difficulties in obtaining complete logical specifications for this process.