A strategy for efficiently verifying requirements specifications using composition and invariants

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 28-37

  Jeffords, Ralph D ^a   Heitmeyer, Constance L ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

compositional verification; formal methods; invariants; model checking; requirements specification; software tools

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; COMPOSITIONAL VERIFICATION; CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEMS; MODEL CHECKER; NAVY SYSTEMS; PARALLEL COMPOSITION; PROOF STRATEGY; REAL-WORLD; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATIONS; SOFTWARE COST REDUCTIONS; SOFTWARE TOOL; STATE-BASED; TABULAR NOTATION; THEOREM PROVERS; VERIFICATION PROBLEMS;

COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FORMAL METHODS; SPECIFICATIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 34748843540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/940071.940077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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