An Initial Wise Development Environment for Behavioral Models

David Harel, Guy Katz, Rami Marelly, Assaf Marron

2016

Abstract

We present a development environment that proactively and interactively assists the software engineer in modeling complex reactive systems. Our framework repeatedly analyzes models of the system under development at various levels of abstraction, and then reasons about these models in order to detect possible errors and to derive emergent properties of interest. Upon request, the environment can then augment the system model in order to repair or avoid detected behavior that is undesired, or instrument it in order to monitor the execution for certain behaviors. Specialized automated and human-assisted techniques are incorporated to direct and prioritize the analysis and related tasks, based on the relevance of the observed properties and the expected impact of actions to be taken. Our development environment is an initial step in the direction of the very recent Wise Computing vision, which calls for turning the computer (namely, the development environment) into an equal member of the development team: knowledgeable, independent, concerned and proactively involved in the development process. Our tool is implemented within the context of behavioral programming (BP), a scenario-based modeling approach, where components are aligned with how humans often describe desired system behavior. Thus, our work further enhances the naturalness and incrementality of developing in BP.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Harel D., Katz G., Marelly R. and Marron A. (2016). An Initial Wise Development Environment for Behavioral Models . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-168-7, pages 600-612. DOI: 10.5220/0005811806000612

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward16,
author={David Harel and Guy Katz and Rami Marelly and Assaf Marron},
title={An Initial Wise Development Environment for Behavioral Models},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2016},
pages={600-612},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005811806000612},
isbn={978-989-758-168-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - An Initial Wise Development Environment for Behavioral Models
SN - 978-989-758-168-7
AU - Harel D.
AU - Katz G.
AU - Marelly R.
AU - Marron A.
PY - 2016
SP - 600
EP - 612
DO - 10.5220/0005811806000612