Conversion of BeepBeep pipelines into NuSMV models

This project is an extension to the BeepBeep 3, event stream processing engine, called a palette, that provides functionalities to produce models for the NuSMV model checker and verify CTL and LTL properties on those models.

What is this?

The palette is the result of work submitted in the following research paper:

• A. Bédard, S. Hallé. (2023). Formal Verification for Event Stream Processing: Model Checking of BeepBeep Stream Processing Pipelines. Inf. Comput. 293: 105058, Elsevier.

This work extends the original modeling presented in this paper:

• A. Bédard, S. Hallé. (2020). Model checking of stream processing pipelines. In: C. Combi, J. Eder, M. Reynolds (Eds.), 28th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2021, September 27-29, 2021, Klagenfurt, Austria, Vol. 206 of LIPIcs, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz- Zentrum für Informatik, 2021, pp. 5:1–5:17. DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2021.5.

Please refer to these research papers for detailed information and examples of what this extension can do.

Building this palette

To compile the palette, make sure you have the following:

• The Java Development Kit (JDK) to compile. The palette complies with Java version 11; it is probably safe to use any later version.
• Ant to automate the compilation and build process

The palette also requires the following Java libraries:

• The latest version of BeepBeep 3
• The latest version of nusmv4j

These dependencies can be automatically downloaded and placed in the dep folder of the project by typing:

ant download-deps

Compiling

Compile the sources by simply typing:

ant

This will produce a file called nusmv4j.jar in the project's root folder.

Testing

If the project includes unit tests, they can be run by typing:

ant test

Unit tests are run with jUnit; a detailed report of these tests in HTML format is availble in the folder tests/junit, which is automatically created. Code coverage is also computed with JaCoCo; a detailed report is available in the folder tests/coverage.

Documentation

The Javadoc documentation of the project can be created by typing:

ant javadoc

The documentation will be placed in the doc folder at the root of the project. Please refer to this documentation to learn how to use the extension.

About the author {#about}

This palette was written by Sylvain Hallé, Full Professor at Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada. It is based on original work done by Alexis Bédard during his Master's project at UQAC.