A Toolchain for Model-based Design and Testing of Access Control Systems

Said Daoudagh, Donia El Kateb, Francesca Lonetti, Eda Marchetti, Tejeddine Mouelhi

2015

Abstract

In access control systems, aimed at regulating the accesses to protected data and resources, a critical component is the Policy Decision Point (PDP), which grants or denies the access according to the defined policies. Due to the complexity of the standard languag-e, it is recommended to rely on model-driven approaches which allow to overcome difficulties in the XACML policy definition. We provide in this paper a toolchain that involves a model-driven approach to specify and generate XACML policies and also enables automated testing of the PDP component. We use XACML-based testing strategies for generating appropriate test cases which are able to validate the functional aspects, constraints, permissions and prohibitions of the PDP. An experimental assessment of the toolchain and its use on a realistic case study are also presented.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Daoudagh S., El Kateb D., Lonetti F., Marchetti E. and Mouelhi T. (2015). A Toolchain for Model-based Design and Testing of Access Control Systems . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-083-3, pages 411-418. DOI: 10.5220/0005330604110418

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward15,
author={Said Daoudagh and Donia El Kateb and Francesca Lonetti and Eda Marchetti and Tejeddine Mouelhi},
title={A Toolchain for Model-based Design and Testing of Access Control Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2015},
pages={411-418},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005330604110418},
isbn={978-989-758-083-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - A Toolchain for Model-based Design and Testing of Access Control Systems
SN - 978-989-758-083-3
AU - Daoudagh S.
AU - El Kateb D.
AU - Lonetti F.
AU - Marchetti E.
AU - Mouelhi T.
PY - 2015
SP - 411
EP - 418
DO - 10.5220/0005330604110418