Addressing Unbounded Parallelism in Verification of Software Components

To use verification tools for reliability analysis of a software component, it is desirable to specify the behavior of the component by a finite-state model. This is often impossible at design time if the component practices unbounded parallelism. In that case, the behavior of the component widely depends on the environment the component is instantiated in. Unfortunately, covering all possible environments results in an infinite-state model. In this paper, we introduce a solution based on the concept of template-to-model transformation: at design time, a developer describes the behavior of the component by a behavior template, which is automatically transformed into a concrete behavior model when the component is instantiated in an environment. As the concrete behavior model is finite-state, it is a suitable input for verification tools