Temporal logic for real time systems
Temporal logic for real time systems
Automatic verification of finite state machines using temporal logic
Automatic verification of finite state machines using temporal logic
Design and validation of computer protocols
Design and validation of computer protocols
Automated analysis of software requirements
Automated analysis of software requirements
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Model checking and abstraction
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Requirements Specification for Process-Control Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Property preserving abstractions for the verification of concurrent systems
Formal Methods in System Design - Special issue on computer-aided verification (based on CAV'92 workshop)
Temporal verification of reactive systems: safety
Temporal verification of reactive systems: safety
Functional documents for computer systems
Science of Computer Programming
Automated consistency checking of requirements specifications
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
The STATEMATE semantics of statecharts
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Automatic generation of invariants and intermediate assertions
Theoretical Computer Science - Special issue: principles and practice of constraint programming
Using Abstraction and Model Checking to Detect Safety Violations in Requirements Specifications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Model Checking Complete Requirements Specifications Using Abstraction
Automated Software Engineering
State-Based Model Checking of Event-Driven System Requirements
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Protocol Verification as a Hardware Design Aid
ICCD '92 Proceedings of the 1991 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design on VLSI in Computer & Processors
Automatic Generation of Invariants in Processor Verification
FMCAD '96 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
Static Analysis to Identify Invariants in RSML Specifications
FTRTFT '98 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems
SCR*: A Toolset for Specifying and Analyzing Software Requirements
CAV '98 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Powerful Techniques for the Automatic Generation of Invariants
CAV '96 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Verifying Invariants Using theorem Proving
CAV '96 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
STeP: The Stanford Temporal Prover
STeP: The Stanford Temporal Prover
Using Abstraction and Model Checking to Detect Safety Violations in Requirements Specifications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Dynamically discovering likely program invariants to support program evolution
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Using model checking to generate tests from requirements specifications
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
Formal specification: a roadmap
Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering
Dynamically Discovering Likely Program Invariants to Support Program Evolution
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on 1999 international conference on software engineering
Using SCR to specify requirements of the BART advanced automated train control system
High integrity software
Model exploration with temporal logic query checking
Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
TAME: Using PVS strategies for special-purpose theorem proving
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Model Checking Complete Requirements Specifications Using Abstraction
Automated Software Engineering
Model exploration with temporal logic query checking
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Program Synthesis from Formal Requirements Specifications Using APTS
Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
Salsa: Combining Constraint Solvers with BDDs for Automatic Invariant Checking
TACAS '00 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems: Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2000
Applying Practical Formal Methods to the Specification and Analysis of Security Properties
MMM-ACNS '01 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Assurance in Computer Networks: Methods, Models, and Architectures for Network Security
Using the SCR* Toolset to Specify Software Requirements
WIFT '98 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Industrial Strength Formal Specification Techniques
Requirements interaction management
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
A strategy for efficiently verifying requirements
Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Generating Annotated Behavior Models from End-User Scenarios
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Domain Consistency in Requirements Specification
QSIC '05 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Quality Software
Generating optimized code from SCR specifications
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED conference on Language, compilers, and tool support for embedded systems
Research Directions in Requirements Engineering
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
Can We Build an Automatic Program Verifier? Invariant Proofs and Other Challenges
Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments
FM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Formal Methods
Managing Complexity in Software Development with Formally Based Tools
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
A component-based approach to verification and validation of formal software models
Architecting dependable systems IV
Automatically discovering properties that specify the latent behavior of UML models
MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems: Part I
Formal Methods in System Design
Formal verification of pentium ® 4 components with symbolic simulation and inductive invariants
CAV'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
Computing refactorings of behavior models
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Statechart-based use case requirement validation of event-driven systems
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Incremental verification with mode variable invariants in state machines
NFM'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on NASA Formal Methods
Formal methods in avionic software certification: the DO-178C perspective
ISoLA'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: applications and case studies - Volume Part II
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Automatic generation of state invariants, properties that hold in every reachable state of a state machine model, can be valuable in software development. Not only can such invariants be presented to system users for validation, in addition, they can be used as auxiliary assertions in proving other invariants. This paper describes an algorithm for the automatic generation of state invariants that, in contrast to most other such algorithms, which operate on programs, derives invariants from requirements specifications. Generating invariants from requirements specifications rather than programs has two advantages: 1) because requirements specifications, unlike programs, are at a high level of abstraction, generation of and analysis using such invariants is easier, and 2) using invariants to detect errors during the requirements phase is considerably more cost-effective than using invariants later in software development. To illustrate the algorithm, we use it to generate state invariants from requirements specifications of an automobile cruise control system and a simple control system for a nuclear plant. The invariants are derived from specifications expressed in the SCR (Software Cost Reduction) tabular notation.