Course Notes

CSI 5174  -  Validation Methods for Distributed Systems

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Fall 2015

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Prerequisites (please review this if you are not familiar with these concepts)

Course content

1. Introduction: the software development process, behavioral modeling and validation methods (1 week)

2. Behavior modeling using states and transitions: Labelled transition systems (LTS) (1 week)

3. Comparing specifications (1 week)

4. Behavior modeling using Input-Output Automata (IOA) (1 week)

5. Behavior modeling using communicationg finite state machines (C-FMS) (2 week)

6. More powerful specification languages and verification tools (1 week)

7. Deriving protocols for communication services and distributed workflow applications (1 week)

8. Testing of component-based systems (1 week)

9. Test architectures for distributed testing (1 week)


Last updated: June 22, 2015