Software Engineering Journal - Controlling software projects
Experiences in Designing and Using Formal Specification Languages for Embedded Control Software
HSCC '00 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
Formal Test Automation: A Simple Experiment
Proceedings of the IFIP TC6 12th International Workshop on Testing Communicating Systems: Method and Applications
The AGEDIS tools for model based testing
ISSTA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
EMSOFT '08 Proceedings of the 8th ACM international conference on Embedded software
Timed Testing under Partial Observability
ICST '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation
Interaction Coverage Meets Path Coverage by SMT Constraint Solving
TESTCOM '09/FATES '09 Proceedings of the 21st IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing of Software and Communication Systems and 9th International FATES Workshop
CADP 2006: a toolbox for the construction and analysis of distributed processes
CAV'07 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computer aided verification
Model-based testing of object-oriented reactive systems with spec explorer
Formal methods and testing
FMICS'10 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Formal methods for industrial critical systems
A semantic framework for test coverage
ATVA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
A symbolic framework for model-based testing
FATES'06/RV'06 Proceedings of the First combined international conference on Formal Approaches to Software Testing and Runtime Verification
JTorX: a tool for on-line model-driven test derivation and execution
TACAS'10 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
State-of-the-art tools and techniques for quantitative modeling and analysis of embedded systems
DATE '12 Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe
Science of Computer Programming
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We report on the actual industrial use of formal methods during the development of a software bus. At Neopost Inc., we developed the server component of a software bus, called the XBus, using formal methods during the design, validation and testing phase: We modeled our design of the XBus in the process algebra mCRL2, validated the design using the mCRL2-simulator, and fully automatically tested our implementation with the model-based test tool JTorX. This resulted in a well-tested software bus with a maintainable architecture. Writing the model, simulating it, and testing the implementation with JTorX only took 17% of the total development time. Moreover, the errors found with model-based testing would have been hard to find with conventional test methods. Thus, we show that formal engineering can be feasible, beneficial and cost-effective.