Verification and Validation in Systems Engineering: Assessing UML/SysML Design Models / Edition 1

by Mourad Debbabi, Fawzi Hassaïne, Yosr Jarraya, Andrei Soeanu, Luay Alawneh

Overview

At the dawn of the 21st century and the information age, communication and c- puting power are becoming ever increasingly available, virtually pervading almost every aspect of modern socio-economical interactions. Consequently, the potential for realizing a significantly greater number of technology-mediated activities has emerged. Indeed, many of our modern activity fields are heavily dependant upon various underlying systems and software-intensive platforms. Such technologies are commonly used in everyday activities such as commuting, traffic control and m- agement, mobile computing, navigation, mobile communication. Thus, the correct function of the forenamed computing systems becomes a major concern. This is all the more important since, in spite of the numerous updates, patches and firmware revisions being constantly issued, newly discovered logical bugs in a wide range of modern software platforms (e. g. , operating systems) and software-intensive systems (e. g. , embedded systems) are just as frequently being reported. In addition, many of today’s products and services are presently being deployed in a highly competitive environment wherein a product or service is succeeding in most of the cases thanks to its quality to price ratio for a given set of features. Accordingly, a number of critical aspects have to be considered, such as the ab- ity to pack as many features as needed in a given product or service while c- currently maintaining high quality, reasonable price, and short time -to- market.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642152276
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/19/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Architecture Frameworks, Model-Driven Architecture, and Simulation.- Unified Modeling Language.- Systems Modeling Language.- Verification, Validation, and Accreditation.- Automatic Approach for Synergistic Verification and Validation.- Software Engineering Metrics in the Context of Systems Engineering.- Verification and Validation of UML Behavioral Diagrams.- Probabilistic Model Checking of SysML Activity Diagrams.- Performance Analysis of Time-Constrained SysML Activity Diagrams.- Semantic Foundations of SysML Activity Diagrams.- Soundness of the Translation Algorithm.- Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“The five authors of this book tackle a very difficult subject, and must be commended for doing so. The result is a welcome addition to the body of professional literature. … It is a highly technical … book on one of the most critical subjects that we have, as professionals. … The book is exceedingly well illustrated. … a professional involved in systems engineering, and particularly in systems quality, verification, systems verification, or other related activities, would find this book useful.” (Mordechai Ben-Menachem, ACM Computing Reviews, May, 2011)

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