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Practical Formal Verification of Domain-Specific Language Applications

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An application developer’s primary task is to produce performant systems that meet their specifications. Formal methods techniques allow engineers to create models and implementations that have a high assurance of satisfying a specification. In this experience report, we take a model-based approach to software development that adds the assurance of formal methods to software construction while automating over 90% of the formal modeling. We discuss a software development methodology and two specific examples that illustrate how to integrate formal methods and their benefits into a traditional (testing-based) software development process.

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  1. BAE Systems, Burlington, MA, 01803, USA

    Greg Eakman, Howard Reubenstein & Tom Hawkins

  2. Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Mitesh Jain & Panagiotis Manolios

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  1. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA

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  2. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA

    Gerard Holzmann

  3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA

    Rajeev Joshi

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Eakman, G., Reubenstein, H., Hawkins, T., Jain, M., Manolios, P. (2015). Practical Formal Verification of Domain-Specific Language Applications. In: Havelund, K., Holzmann, G., Joshi, R. (eds) NASA Formal Methods. NFM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17524-9_34

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