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In this paper, we evaluate a tool chain to algorithmically analyze real-time requirements. According to this tool chain, one formalizes the requirements in a natural-language pattern system. The requirements can then be automatically compiled into formulas in a real-time logic. The formulas can be checked automatically for properties whose violation indicates an error in the requirements specification (the properties considered are: consistency, rt-consistency, vacuity). We report on a feasibility study in the context of several automotive projects at Bosch. The results of the study indicate that the effort for the formalization of real-time requirements is acceptable; the analysis algorithms are computationally feasible; the benefit (the detection of specification errors resp. the formal guarantee of their absence) seems significant.
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Post, A., Hoenicke, J. (2012). Formalization and Analysis of Real-Time Requirements: A Feasibility Study at BOSCH. In: Joshi, R., Müller, P., Podelski, A. (eds) Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments. VSTTE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27705-4_18
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