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Specification Mining of Symbolic Scenario-Based Models
Proceedings of the 8th SIGSOFT-SIGPLAN International Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE)
  • David LO, Singapore Management University
  • Shahar Maoz, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
10-2008
Abstract

Many dynamic analysis approaches to specification mining, which extract behavioral models from execution traces, do not consider object identities. This limits their power when used to analyze traces of general object oriented programs. In this work we present a novel specification mining approach that considers object identities, and, moreover, generalizes from specifications involving concrete objects to their symbolic class-level abstractions. Our approach uses data mining methods to extract significant scenario-based specifications in the form of Damm and Harel's live sequence charts (LSC), a formal and expressive extension of classic sequence diagrams. We guarantee that all mined symbolic LSCs are significant (statistically sound) and all significant symbolic LSCs are mined (statistically complete). The technique can potentially be applied to general object oriented programs to reveal expressive and useful reverse-engineered candidate specifications.

Identifier
10.1145/1512475.1512482
Publisher
ACM
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1512475.1512482
Citation Information
David LO and Shahar Maoz. "Specification Mining of Symbolic Scenario-Based Models" Proceedings of the 8th SIGSOFT-SIGPLAN International Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE) (2008) p. 29 - 35
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_lo/27/