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Science of Computer Programming
Automated consistency checking of requirements specifications
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Completeness in formal specification language design for process-control systems
FMSP '00 Proceedings of the third workshop on Formal methods in software practice
Studying programmer behavior experimentally: the problems of proper methodology
Communications of the ACM
An experimental evaluation of continuous testing during development
ISSTA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Safety and Software Intensive Systems: Challenges Old and New
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
A Framework for Empirical Evaluation of Model Comprehensibility
MISE '07 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering
SCESM '07 Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Scenarios and State Machines
Getting 'Whole Picture' Behavior In A Use Case Model
Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science
Dynamic graphical UML views from formal B specifications
Information and Software Technology
Flexible and extensible notations for modeling languages
FASE'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Fundamental approaches to software engineering
Precise scenarios: a customer-friendly foundation for formal specifications
IFM'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Integrated formal methods
HASE'04 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE international conference on High assurance systems engineering
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The readability of formal requirements specification languages is hypothesized as a limiting factor in the acceptance of formal methods by the industrial community. An empirical study was conducted to determine how various factors of state-based requirements specification language design affect readability using aerospace applications. Six factors were tested in all, including the representation of the overall state machine structure, the expression of triggering conditions, the use of macros, the use of internal broadcast events, the use of hierarchies, and transition perspective (going-to or coming-from). Subjects included computer scientists as well as aerospace engineers in an effort to determine whether background affects notational preferences. Because so little previous experimentation on this topic exists on which to build hypotheses, the study was designed as a preliminary exploration of what factors are most important with respect to readability. It can serve as a starting point for more thorough and carefully controlled experimentation in specification language readability.