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ICSE
1999
IEEE-ACM
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A Practical Method for Verifying Event-Driven Software
Formal verification methods are used only sparingly in software development. The most successful methods to date are based on the use of model checking tools. To use such he user ...
Gerard J. Holzmann, Margaret H. Smith
ZUM
1997
Springer
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A Formal OO Method Inspired by Fusion and Object-Z
We present a new formal OO method, called FOX, which is a synergetic combination of the semi-formal Fusion method and the formal specification language Object-Z. To manage complex...
Klaus Achatz, Wolfram Schulte
TPHOL
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Village Telephone System: A Case Study in Formal Software Engineering
In this paper we illustrate the use of formal methods in the development of a benchmark application we call the Village Telephone System which is characteristic of a class of netwo...
Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Carl A. Gunter, Elsa L. Gun...
ECOOPW
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Providing Automatic Support for Heuristic Rules of Methods
In method-based software development, software engineers create artifacts based on the heuristic rules of the adopted method. Most CASE tools, however, do not actively assist soft...
Bedir Tekinerdogan, Mehmet Aksit
WCRE
1995
IEEE
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Strongest Postcondition Semantics as the Formal Basis for Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineering of program code is the process of constructing a higher level abstraction of an implementation in order to facilitate the understanding of a system that may be...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng