This report details part of the results of five software audits that were done to evaluate various aspects of the quality in five very big software projects. One result of our work...
The record of successful applications of formal verification techniques is slowly growing. Our ultimate aim, however, is not to perform small pilot projects that show that verific...
In the ForMoSA project [17] an integrated approach for safety analysis of critical, embedded systems has been developed. The approach brings together the best of engineering practi...
Frank Ortmeier, Andreas Thums, Gerhard Schellhorn,...
A limiting factor in the industrial acceptance of formal specifications is their readability, particularly for large, complex engineering systems. We hypothesize that multiple vis...
Nicolas Dulac, Thomas Viguier, Nancy G. Leveson, M...
Despite recent developments in formal methods, formal methods have yet to enter the mainstream of software industry. In this paper, we first examine the pragmatic obstacles of ma...