Advances in software inspections
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The SCR method for formally specifying, verifying, and validating requirements: tool support
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
AMAST '00 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology
Lightweight Validation of Natural Language Requirements: A Case Study
ICRE '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE'00)
TPHOLs '08 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics
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Industrial software companies developing safety-critical systems are required to use rigorous safety analysis techniques to demonstrate compliance to regulatory bodies. While analysis techniques based on manual inspection have been successfully applied to many industrial applications, we demonstrate that inspection has limitations in locating complex errors in software requirements.In this paper, we describe the formal verification of a shutdown system for a nuclear power plant that is currently operational in Korea. The shutdown system is an embedded real-time safety-critical software, and has a description in a Software Cost Reduction (SCR) style specification language. The key component of the work described here is an automatic method for translating SCR-style Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) into the language of the PVS specification and verification system. A further component is the use of property templates to translate natural language Program Functional Specifications (PFS) into PVS, allowing for high-assurance consistency checking between the translated SRS and PFS, thereby verifying the required functional properties.