The ESTEREL synchronous programming language: design, semantics, implementation
Science of Computer Programming
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on formal methods in software practice
Using Abstraction and Model Checking to Detect Safety Violations in Requirements Specifications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
ESEC/FSE-7 Proceedings of the 7th European software engineering conference held jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Model checking
Model Checking Large Software Specifications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Comparing Symbolic and Explicit Model Checking of a Software System
Proceedings of the 9th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software
Assumption Generation for Software Component Verification
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
Model Checking RSML-e Requirements
HASE '02 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance Systems Engineering
NIMBUS: A Tool for Specification Centered Development
RE '03 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering
The temporal logic of programs
SFCS '77 Proceedings of the 18th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
Spin model checker, the: primer and reference manual
Spin model checker, the: primer and reference manual
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Model checking has become a promising automated verification technique in practice. Nevertheless, most existing model checkers are specialized for limited aspects of a system where each of them requires a certain level of expertise to use the tool in the right domain in the right way. Hardly any guideline is available on choosing the right model checker for a particular problem domain, which makes adopting the technique more difficult in practice. Based on the author's prior experience with the use of the symbolic model checker NuSMV on commercial Flight Guidance Systems (FGS) at Rockwell-Collins, the relative benefits and pitfalls of using the explicit model checker SPIN on the same problem are investigated. This has been a question from the beginning of the project with Rockwell-Collins. The challenge includes an efficient use of SPIN for the complex synchronous mode logic with a large number of state variables, where SPIN is known to be not particulary efficient. We present the way the SPIN model is optimized to avoid the state space explosion problem, which makes SPIN scale up better than NuSMV in the end, and discuss the implication of the result. We hope our experience can be a useful reference for the future use of model checking in a similar domain.