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Providing Early Warnings of Specification Problems

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NASA Formal Methods (NFM 2014)

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A formal software verification system relies upon a software engineer writing mathematically precise specifications of intended behavior. Humans often introduce defects into such specifications. Techniques and tools capable of warning about common defects can help them develop correct specifications by finding subtle issues that would permit unintended behavior. New specification-checking techniques and a tool that implements them, SpecChec, are described.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 43210, USA

    Dustin Hoffman, Aditi Tagore, Diego Zaccai & Bruce W. Weide

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  1. NASA, 2101 NASA Parkway, M/C ER4, 77058, Houston, TX, USA

    Julia M. Badger

  2. Intelligent Systems Division, NASA Ames Research Center, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Kristin Yvonne Rozier

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Hoffman, D., Tagore, A., Zaccai, D., Weide, B.W. (2014). Providing Early Warnings of Specification Problems. In: Badger, J.M., Rozier, K.Y. (eds) NASA Formal Methods. NFM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8430. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06200-6_7

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