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For more information contact Andy Edmunds - University of Southampton - mailto:ae2@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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UML-B provides a 'UML-like' graphical front end for Event-B. It provides various diagrammatic modelling notations and editors for creating models which are then translated into Event-B for verification. [[UML-B]] works alongside Event-B allowing the modeller to model in normal Event-B but also contribute some aspects of the model via diagrams.
=== Tasking Event-B Tutorial Overview ===
 
  
This code generation tutorial supplements the Heating Controller tutorial example, and makes use of example projects from the download site. The code generation stage produces implementable Ada code, and also an Event-B project which models the implementation. The Ada code is produced using a pretty printer tool from an intermediate model, the Common Language model (IL1), generated by a translation tool. An overview of Tasking Event-B can be found on the [[Tasking_Event-B_Overview]] page.
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Our [https://www.uml-b.org UML-B] website contains more information about installing UML-B and getting started, as well as our current research and collaborations.
  
The Heating Controller development has been refined to the point where we wish to add implementation constructs. The Event-B language is not expressive enough to fully describe the implementation. Tasking Event-B facilitates this final step to implementation, by extending Event-B with the necessary constructs. Event-B machines that are to be implemented (and their seen Contexts) are selected and added to a ''Tasking Development''; the Tasking Development files have the file extension ''.tasking''. The machines in the Tasking Development are then extended with implementation details.
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UML-B is a collection of diagrammatic editors for Event-B. The diagrams are used to elaborate the machine and its content with extra model features. The diagrams may either by contained within the machine they contribute to, or can be contained in a separate UML-B model file that is linked to the machine.
  
The example/tutorial projects are,
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* [[Image:IUMLB.png]] [[Event-B Statemachines| State-machine diagrams]] a hierarchical state-machine diagram editor which can be used to impose sequential ordering to your events. An animator is also provided to visualise the progress of the state-machine.
  
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* [[Image:IUMLB.png]] [[Event-B Classdiagrams| Class diagrams]] a class diagram editor which can be used to define data entities and their relationships and to lift behaviour based on data sets.
|HeatingController20110429Demo
 
|An example project with a completed Tasking Development and IL1 model (post IL1 translation, but before Event-B translation).
 
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|HeatingController20110429Tasking
 
|Same as the example project above, but with Event-B model translations. The difference being that this development includes a model of the implementation. These are refinements that include a program counter to describe flow of execution in each task.
 
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|HeatingController20110429Tutorial
 
|A bare project for step 1 of the [[Code_Generation_Tutorial#The_Tutorial |tutorial]].
 
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|HeatingController20110429Tutorial2
 
|A partially completed tasking development for steps 2 and 3 of the [[Code_Generation_Tutorial#The_Tutorial |tutorial]].
 
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== Preliminaries ==
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==Lectures==
Before further discussion of the modelling aspects, we take a look at the PrettyPrint viewers. The PrettyPrinters make the viewing of IL1 and tasking models easier; it also provides a route to generate source code. The source code can easily be pasted from the IL1 Pretty Printer window into an the Ada source file .
 
==== The PrettyPrint View of a Tasking Development ====
 
To open the Tasking PrettyPrint viewer,
 
* from the top-menu select ''Window/Show View/Other/Tasking Pretty Printer''.
 
  
Note that the Tasking PrettyPrinter may have to be closed when editing the Tasking Development, since it can give rise to exceptions. The PrettyPrinter would need further work to make it robust, however it is intended only as a short-term solution.
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* [[Media:iUML-BClassDiagramsLecture.pdf | iUML-B Class-diagrams Lecture]] : Lecture slides on the use of iUML-B Class-diagrams
  
* Open the ''HeatingController20110429Demo'' Project and switch to the Resource Perspective.
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* [[Media:iUML-BStatemachinesLecture.pdf | iUML-B State-machines Lecture]] : Lecture slides on the use of iUML-B State-machines.
* Open the ''.tasking'' model and inspect it. Clicking on the Main, Machine or Event nodes updates the pretty print window.
 
  
==== Viewing Source Code ====
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==Tutorials==
aka. The PrettyPrint View of an IL1 Model.
 
  
To view Ada source code,
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* [[iUML-B Class-diagrams Tutorial]] : A tutorial on the use of iUML-B Class-diagrams.
* from the top-menu select ''Window/Show View/Other/IL1 Pretty Printer''.
 
* Open the ''HeatingController20110429Demo'' Project and switch to the Resource Perspective.
 
* Open the ''.il1'' model and inspect it. Clicking on the Protected, Main Entry, or Task nodes updates the pretty print window.
 
  
==== Cleaning the Tasking Development ====
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* [[iUML-B State-machines Tutorial]] : A tutorial on the use of iUML-B State-machines.
If the ''.tasking'' file has errors, then it may need cleaning. To do this right-click on the ''Main'' node, select ''Epsilon Translation/CleanUp''. If a model has errors it can still be viewed by clicking on the ''Selection'' tab at the bottom of the tasking editor window.
 
  
== The Tutorial ==
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==Guidelines==
The steps needed to generate code from an Event-B model, in this tutorial, are as follows,
 
* Step 1 - [http://wiki.event-b.org/index.php/Code_Generation_Tutorial#Creating_The_Tasking_Development Create the tasking development].
 
* Step 2 - [http://wiki.event-b.org/index.php/Code_Generation_Tutorial#Providing_the_Annotations_for_Implementations Add annotations]
 
* Step 3 - [http://wiki.event-b.org/index.php/Code_Generation_Tutorial#Invoking_the_Translation Invoke translators].
 
  
==== Creating The Tasking Development ====
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* [[iUML-B Modelling a control system]] : Some guidelines on modelling styles for a control system
* Change to the Event-B Perspective.
 
* Open the ''SharedBuffer20100819Tutorial'' Project.
 
* Select the following Machines: Reader, Writer and Shared.
 
* Right-click and select ''Make Tasking Development/Generate Tasking Development''.
 
  
The new Tasking Development will not be visible in the Event-B perspective, change to the resource perspective, open and inspect the new ''.tasking'' file. The Tasking Development contains (the EMF representation of) the machines that we wish to provide implementations for. In order to introduce the new concepts we have prepared a partially complete development.
 
 
Change to the Project ''SharedBuffer20100819Tutorial2'' to begin the next step.
 
 
==== Providing the Annotations for Implementations ====
 
* Close any Tasking Pretty Print Viewers that remain open. The incomplete model will give rise to exceptions.
 
* Go to the to the Resource Perspective.
 
* Open and inspect the ''.tasking'' machine.
 
 
The ''WriterTsk'' and ''SharedObj'' machines are incomplete. We will take the steps to necessary to provide implementation details.
 
 
===== The WriterTsk Machine =====
 
In the partially complete tutorial project we already identified the ''WriterTsk'' as an ''Auto Task'' Tasking Machine, by adding the ''Auto Task'' extension. ''Auto Tasks'' are tasks that will be declared and defined in the ''Main'' procedure of the implementation. The effect of this is that the ''Auto Tasks'' are created when the program first loads, and then activated (made ready to run) before the ''Main'' procedure body runs. We have added the ''Periodic Task'' extension to the ''Auto Task'', and set a period of 250 milliseconds. We will now complete the sequence that has been partially defined in the task body.
 
 
*'''Add Synchronisation between TWrite and SWrite'''.
 
** Expand the ''Auto Task Machine'' node.
 
** Expand the ''Seq'' sub-tree.
 
** Right-click on the ''Seq'' node and select ''New Child/Left Branch EventWrapper''.
 
** Provide the event label ''w1'' using the properties view.
 
** Right-click on Event Wrapper and select ''New Child/ Synch Events''.
 
** Select ''Synch Events'' and go to the drop-down menu of the ''Local Event'' property.
 
** At this point the drop-down box displays a number of event names, select the ''TWrite'' event.
 
** Go to the drop-down menu of the ''Remote Event'' property.
 
** From the list of events select the ''SWrite'' event.
 
 
The Synch Events construct is used to implement [http://wiki.event-b.org/index.php/Tasking_Event-B_Overview#Control_Constructs Event Synchronisation]. The next step wraps an event in an Event Wrapper in order to update the local state; there is no synchronisation as such but we will re-use the constructs that already exist.
 
 
*'''Add the Wrapped Event TcalcWVal'''.
 
** Expand the sub-tree of the second ''Seq'' node.
 
** Right-click on the ''Seq'' node and select ''New Child/Left Branch EventWrapper''.
 
** Provide the event label ''w2'' using the properties view.
 
** Right-click on Event Wrapper and select ''New Child/ Synch Events''.
 
** Select ''Synch Events'' and go to the drop-down menu of the ''Local Event'' property.
 
** From the list of events select the ''TcalcWVal'' event.
 
 
We have now completed the task body, and it just remains to complete provide details for the ''TWrite'' event. The ''TWrite'' event in ''WriterTsk'' is to be synchronized with the ''SWrite'' event in the ''SharedObj''.
 
*'''Add Event Extensions'''.
 
** Right-click on the ''TWrite'' Event node.
 
** Select ''New Child/Extension''.
 
** Right-click on the ''Extension'' node and select ''New Child/Implementation'' from the menu.
 
** Go to the Implementation properties view and set the ''Implementation Type'' property to ''ProcedureSynch''.
 
 
*'''Identify Incoming and Outgoing parameters'''.
 
** Right-click on the ''outAP'' node and add an ''Extension''.
 
** Right-click on the ''Extension'' and select''New Child/Parameter Type''.
 
** Go to the ''Parameter Type'' properties view and set the ''Parameter Type'' property to ''actualOut''.
 
** Right-click on the ''inAP'' node and add an ''Extension''.
 
** Right-click on the ''Extension'' and select''New Child/Parameter Type''.
 
** Go to the ''Parameter Type'' properties view and set the ''Parameter Type'' property to ''actualIn''.
 
 
===== The Shared Machine =====
 
 
The next step is to identify the ''SharedObj'' machine as a ''Shared Machine''. The ''SharedObj'' Machine will be extended using the Event-B EMF extension mechanism.
 
* Right-click on the ''SharedObj'' Machine node in the ''.tasking'' file.
 
* Select ''New Child/Extension''.
 
* Right-click on the ''Extension'' node and select ''New Child/Shared Machine'' from the menu.
 
 
We now show how to extend the ''SWrite'' event of the Shared Machine with details about its implementation. The ''SWrite'' event in ''SharedObj'' is to be synchronized with the ''TWrite'' event in the ''WriterTsk''.
 
* '''Identify SWrite as a Syncronisation'''.
 
** Right-click on the ''SWrite'' Event node.
 
** Select ''New Child/Extension''.
 
** Right-click on the ''Extension'' node and select ''New Child/Implementation'' from the menu.
 
** Go to the Implementation properties view and set the ''Implementation Type'' property to ''ProcedureSynch''.
 
 
* '''Identify incoming and outgoing parameters'''.
 
** Right-click on the ''inFP'' node and add an ''Extension''.
 
** Right-click on the ''Extension'' and select''New Child/Parameter Type''.
 
** Go to the ''Parameter Type'' properties view and set the ''Parameter Type'' property to ''formalIn''.
 
** Right-click on the ''outFP'' node and add an ''Extension''.
 
** Right-click on the ''Extension'' and select''New Child/Parameter Type''.
 
** Go to the ''Parameter Type'' properties view and set the ''Parameter Type'' property to ''formalOut''.
 
 
===== A Summary of Steps =====
 
 
For a Tasking Machine definition:
 
# Add the Tasking Machine type (Auto etc).
 
# Add the task type (Periodic etc.).
 
# Define the task priority.
 
# Define the task body.
 
# For each event, add the Event Type.
 
# For each event parameter, add the Parameter Type.
 
 
 
For a Shared Machine definition:
 
# Add the ''SharedMachine'' Machine type.
 
# For each event, define the Event Type.
 
# For each event parameter, define the Parameter Type.
 
 
==== Invoking the Translation ====
 
 
* To create the IL1 model,
 
** Right-Click on the Main node, select ''Epsilon Translation/Translate Task Mch 2 IL1 EMF''.
 
** Open the Resource Perspective.
 
** Right-click on the ''sharedbuffer20100819Tutorial2'' project folder.
 
** Select refresh, the ''.il1'' file should appear in the project.
 
** Open and inspect the file, and view the source code by opening the IL1 Pretty Print view if desired.
 
 
* To create the Event-B model of the implementation,
 
** Return to the Rodin Modelling Perspective.
 
** Right-Click on the Main node, select ''Epsilon Translation/Translate Task Mch 2 Event-B EMF''.
 
** The ''sharedbuffer20100819bTasking'' project is generated, it can be opened and inspected.
 
 
There are errors in the generated machines (not investigated the cause yet); these can be fixed in the following way.
 
* Open a Machine in the Event-B Machine Editor.
 
* Select the Edit tab.
 
* Open the REFINES section, the error lies here.
 
* The correct machine is refined, but choose a different machine to refine (any one, it doesn't matter).
 
* Select the original refined machine again.
 
* Save and clean the project, and the error should disappear.
 
* Repeat for the same errors in the other machines; save and clean again.
 
* The machines can viewed as normal using the Rodin editors.
 
  
 
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UML-B provides a 'UML-like' graphical front end for Event-B. It provides various diagrammatic modelling notations and editors for creating models which are then translated into Event-B for verification. UML-B works alongside Event-B allowing the modeller to model in normal Event-B but also contribute some aspects of the model via diagrams.

Our UML-B website contains more information about installing UML-B and getting started, as well as our current research and collaborations.

UML-B is a collection of diagrammatic editors for Event-B. The diagrams are used to elaborate the machine and its content with extra model features. The diagrams may either by contained within the machine they contribute to, or can be contained in a separate UML-B model file that is linked to the machine.

  • IUMLB.png State-machine diagrams a hierarchical state-machine diagram editor which can be used to impose sequential ordering to your events. An animator is also provided to visualise the progress of the state-machine.
  • IUMLB.png Class diagrams a class diagram editor which can be used to define data entities and their relationships and to lift behaviour based on data sets.

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