Specifying system families with TLA+

Authors:
Tatjana Kapus
Affiliations:
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia
Venue:
SEPADS'12/EDUCATION'12 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS international conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems, and proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Engineering Education
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In software product line engineering, families of similar products are developed instead of single ones. The systems produced as part of a family differ in the features they include. To ease the simultaneous design of multiple systems, methods to write a formal specification of a complete product line have been proposed. This paper shows how a TLA+ specification of a system family can be written, based on the representation of the family by a featured transition system. The specification of correctness properties of system families in TLA+ and their verification with the TLA+ model checker TLC are considered.