Research Article

Evaluation of Tools and Slicing Techniques for Efficient Verification of UML/OCL Class Diagrams

Table 19

Some statistical comparisons on empirical observations.

Type of empirical study Mean values (in seconds) Standard deviation
OVTTVTOVT TVT

UMLtoCSP Verification Time (Table 9) N/A0.405N/A 0.484
Alloy for Paper-Researcher (Table 12) 0.0260.0120.027 0.013
Alloy for Coach example (Table 13)0.0870.0300.100 0.034
Alloy for Tracking System (Table 14)0.4690.0380.547 0.042
Alloy for Script 1 (Table 15)1.304 0.0411.495 0.045
Alloy for Script 2 (Table 16)33.6950.03440.977 0.037
Alloy for Script 3 (Table 17)151.1120.038185.205 0.040
Alloy for DBLP Conceptual Schema (Table 18)22.331 9.93322.165 9.620

OVT: Original Verification Time (before slicing). TVT: Total Verification Time (after slicing).