Evaluating Adaptability of SET Protocols Using Colored Petri Nets

Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol is an open protocol, which hasthe potential to emerge as a powerful tool in securing of electronic transactions. Thequality of a design of an Ecommerce protocols has a great influence on achievingnon-functional requirements (NFRs) to the system. An increasingly important non-functional attribute of complex sofiware systems is adaptability. Software foradaptive software systems should be flexible enough to allow components to changetheir behaviors depending upon the environmental and stakeholders' changes andgoals of the system. Evaluating adaptability at software to identify the weaknesses ofthe software and further to improve adaptability of their, are very important tasks.This paper presents a method based on the use of Colored Petri Nets for evaluatingAdaptability in SET protocol. We try to see how we try to see low we can apply the way formalizeCPN in terms of quality attributes to evaluate some of them, on the SET protocol.