Specification of an Automatic Manufacturing System: A Case Study in Using Integrated Formal Methods

  • Authors:
  • Heike Wehrheim

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • FASE '00 Proceedings of the Third Internationsl Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2000
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

An automatic manufacturing system serves as a case study for the applicability of an integrated formal method to the specification of software systems. The formal method chosen is CSP-OZ, an integration of the state-oriented formalism Object-Z with the process algebra CSP. The practicability as well as limitations of CSP-OZ are studied. We furthermore employ a graphical notation (class diagrams) from the Unified Modelling Language to describe the architectural view of the system. The correctness of the obtained specification is checked by a translation into the input language of the CSP model checker FDR and a following property check.