TRIO: A logic language for executable specifications of real-time systems
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Specifications are not (necessarily) executable
Software Engineering Journal
Systematic software development using VDM (2nd ed.)
Systematic software development using VDM (2nd ed.)
Specifications are (preferably) executable
Software Engineering Journal
From VDM specifications to functional prototypes
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on applying specification, verification, and validation techniques to industrial software systems
Using ABC to prototype VDM specifications
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Proof in VDM: a practitioner's guide
Proof in VDM: a practitioner's guide
The IFAD VDM-SL toolbox: a practical approach to formal specifications
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
The B-book: assigning programs to meanings
The B-book: assigning programs to meanings
Formal methods: state of the art and future directions
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special ACM 50th-anniversary issue: strategic directions in computing research
A system for translating executable VDM specifications into Lazy ML
Software—Practice & Experience
Ten Commandments of Formal Methods
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Applying Formal Specification in Industry
IEEE Software
Z--, an Executable Subset of Z
Proceedings of the Z User Workshop
Combining VDM-SL Specifications with C++ Code
FME '96 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe on Industrial Benefit and Advances in Formal Methods
FME '96 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe on Industrial Benefit and Advances in Formal Methods
A Proof Obligation Generator for VDM-SL
FME '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe on Industrial Applications and Strengthened Foundations of Formal Methods
UniTesK Test Suite Architecture
FME '02 Proceedings of the International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe on Formal Methods - Getting IT Right
An Executable Subset of Meta-IV with Loose Specification
VDM '91 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium of VDM Europe on Formal Software Development-Volume I: Conference Contributions - Volume I
Validated Designs For Object-oriented Systems
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An automated approach to specification animation for validation
Journal of Systems and Software
Validation Support for Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems in VDM++
HASE '07 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium
Balancing insight and effort: the industrial uptake of formal methods
Formal methods and hybrid real-time systems
Using b as a high level programming language in an industrial project: roissy VAL
ZB'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Formal Specification and Development in Z and B
Modeling and validating distributed embedded real-time systems with VDM++
FM'06 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Formal Methods
Formal methods: Practice and experience
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The overture initiative integrating tools for VDM
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Connecting UML and VDM++ with Open Tool Support
FM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Formal Methods
Proving consistency of VDM models using HOL
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Collaborative modelling and co-simulation in the development of dependable embedded systems
IFM'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Integrated formal methods
Proof obligation generation and discharging for recursive definitions in VDM
ICFEM'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Formal engineering methods and software engineering
A Deterministic Interpreter Simulating A Distributed real time system using VDM
ICFEM'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Formal methods and software engineering
Combining VDM with executable code
ABZ'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z
Design support and tooling for dependable embedded control software
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems
Translation of Z specifications to executable code: Application to the database domain
Information and Software Technology
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We describe the current status of "VDMTools", a group of tools supporting the analysis of system models expressed in the formal language of the Vienna Development Method. Three dialects of the language are supported: the ISO standard VDM specification language with support for modular structuring, the extension VDM++ which supports object-oriented structuring and concurrency, and a version extending VDM++ with features for modeling and analysing distributed embedded real-time systems. VDMTools provides extensive static semantics checking, automatic code generation, round-trip mapping to UML class diagrams, documentation support, test coverage analysis and debugging support. The tools' focus is on supporting the cost-effective development and exploitation of formal models in industrial settings. The paper presents the components of VDMTools and reports recent experience using them for the development of large models.