Service-Oriented Development of Fault Tolerant Communicating Systems: Refinement Approach

Telecommunication systems must have a high degree of availability, that is, a high probability of correct and timely provision of requested services. To achieve this, correctness of software for such systems should be ensured. Application of formal methods helps increase confidence in building correct software. However, to be used in practice, formal methods should be well integrated into existing development process. In this paper, the authors propose a formal model-driven approach to development of communicating systems. The authors formalize and extend the Lyra approach-a top-down service-oriented method for development of communicating systems. Lyra is based on transformation and decomposition of models expressed in UML2. The authors formalize Lyra in the B Method by proposing a set of formal specification and refinement patterns reflecting the essential models and transformations of the Lyra phases. Moreover, this paper extends Lyra to integrate reasoning about fault tolerance in the entire development flow.

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