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Applying an appropriate formal model to specify software architecture makes a reliable foundation to formally verify non-functional properties and therefore, leads to early detection of defects. In this paper we make a comparison between automata-based models and evaluate their abilities to model different aspects of components interaction in software architectures. We try to use Team automata as a middleware to formally specify well-known architectural descriptions in UML2.0. A Limitation of current automata models, so called "actions interleaving" is also discussed and some approaches to overcome this limitation described.
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Sharafi, M., Shams Aliee, F., Movaghar, A. (2007). A Review on Specifying Software Architectures Using Extended Automata-Based Models. In: Arbab, F., Sirjani, M. (eds) International Symposium on Fundamentals of Software Engineering. FSEN 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4767. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75698-9_30
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