2004/12/10 by James E. Johnson, Johnson, James E., David E. Langworthy +5
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Access Control and Trust #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #Informatik #Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services #Specification #Standards #Tla #Verification
paper · doi:10.15480/882.2602
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We describe a use of formal methods to specify and check a Web Services protocol. The Web Services Atomic Transaction protocol was specified in TLA + and checked with the TLC model checker. A modest effort revealed oversights that caused unanticipated behaviors of the protocol; these were corrected by clarifications and changes to the protocol.