Towards Incremental Validation of Railway Systems

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Abstract

We propose to formally model requirements and interoperability constraints among components of a railway system to enable automated, incremental analysis and validation mechanisms. The goal is to provide the basis for a technology that can drastically reduce the time and cost for certification by making it possible to trace changes from requirements via design to implementation.

Keywords

Software Product Line Symbolic Execution Railway System Delta Module Abstract Behavioral Specification 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Computer ScienceTechnische Universität DarmstadtDarmstadtGermany
  2. 2.Department of Computer ScienceUniversità degli Studi di TorinoTorinoItaly

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