Glossary and Acronyms

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Term

Definition

Link (web/papers/reports)

Scenario

A brief description of events or series of events.

Wikipedia

Implied Scenario

A mis-match between specified behaviour and architecture.

S. Uchitel, J. Kramer and J. Magee. Synthesis of Behavorial Models from Scenarios. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. Volume 29, Number 2, February 2003.

Negative Scenario

An undesirable implied scenario, from the point of view of a stakeholder.

S. Uchitel, J. Kramer and J. Magee. Negative Scenarios for Implied Scenario Elicitation. In 10th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'02), Charleston, November 2002

MSC

Message Sequence Chart

ITU Recommendation Z-120 04-2004, Message Sequence Charts (MSC)

hMSC

Higher-Level Message Sequence Chart

ITU Recommendation Z-120 04-2004, Message Sequence Charts (MSC)

bMSC

Basic Message Sequence Chart

ITU Recommendation Z-120 04-2004, Message Sequence Charts (MSC)

 

 

Acronym

Full Title

FSP

Finite State Processes

LTSA

The Labelled Transition System Analyser

MSC

Message Sequence Chart

BPEL4WS

Business Execution Language for Web Services (v1.0/1.1)

WS-BPEL

The Web Services Business Execution Language (BPEL4WS v2.0)

WS-CDL

The Web Services Choreography Description Language

WSDL

The Web Services Description Language (WSDL)