Static Verification of Declarative Open Interaction Models

Abstract

Static verification offers design-time support for guaranteeing that an interaction model will meet, during the execution, certain desired properties, enabling the early identification of errors and undesired situations. It is therefore exploited a-priori, before the execution. The positive outcome of static verification can be used as a proof attesting the trustworthiness and reliability of the developed model.

This chapter provides an introductory characterization of the static verification of declarative open interaction models, specified using the ConDec notation. We discuss the desiderata that a static verification technology must accomplish, and then focus on two specific problems:

• static verification of properties, carried out on a single model;

• static verification of a composition of local models, and conformance checking of a set of local models with a global (choreographic) model.