Formal Analysis of Objects State Changes and Transitions
ENASE 2012 : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering 2012
Uldis Doniņš, Jānis Osis, Ērika Nazaruka, Asnate Jansone

Event-driven software systems continuously wait for occurrence of some external or internal events. When such event is received and recognized, the system reacts by performing corresponding computations which may include generation of events that trigger computation in other components. The response to the received event depends on the current state of the system and underlying objects and can include a change of state leading to a state transition. The state changes and transitions within a system can be formally analysed by using Topological functioning model. It captures system functioning specification in the form of topological space consisting of functional features and cause-and-effect relations among them and is represented in a form of directed graph. The functional features together with topological relationships contain the necessary information to create State diagram which reflects the state changes within system.


Keywords
Topological Functioning Modelling, Functional Characteristics, Objects, Object States
DOI
10.5220/0004099502490256
Hyperlink
http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/Link.aspx?doi=10.5220/0004099502490256

Doniņš, U., Osis, J., Nazaruka, Ē., Jansone, A. Formal Analysis of Objects State Changes and Transitions. In: ENASE 2012 : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Poland, Wrocław, 29-30 June, 2012. [S.l.]: SciTePress, 2012, pp.249-256. ISBN 978-989-8565-13-6. Available from: doi:10.5220/0004099502490256

Publication language
English (en)
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