HOW EFFECTIVE IS MODEL CHECKING IN PRACTICE?
Software and hardware systems are becoming increasingly large, complex, and can change rapidly. Ensuring reliability of these systems can therefore be a problem. Traditional techniques such as testing and simulation are completely infeasible to cope. Model checking offers an alternative, but its use is still limited. We identify the disadvantages of model checking in practical usages and research directions to tackle these. We clearly define the context for each disadvantage and concretely describe difficulties for which verification users may face when applying the model checking technique to verifying certain systems. We also provide a comprehensive picture of research works in this context and emphasize outcomes and shortcomings of each work by means of others. The paper would be therefore the useful user manual for verification users in practical usages and the helpful guidance for doing research in model checking.
Formal methods Static analysis Model checking Hardware verification Software verification
TheAnh Do A. C. M. Fong Russel Pears
Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
国际会议
13th International Conference on Enterprise Information System(第13届企业信息系统国际会议 ICEIS 2011)
北京
英文
1876-1881
2011-06-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）