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This paper summarizes the experience obtained in the definition of a LOTOS based development methodology and its pragmatic introduction in common industrial practice.
The work has been done within a technology transfer model where the development of medium-to-large size case studies plays a predominant role. A case study, development of a gateway between DSS1 and SS7 ISDN signalling systems, was chosen as a representative example of industrial product in the switching application domain. The case study was developed by automatic code generation from a LOTOS specification. Later, its functionality was enhanced to provide demo facilities in order to evaluate the development approach.
From this experience a practical methodology to combine LOTOS with conventional techniques has been defined.
This work has been partly sponsored by the Spanish CDTI (Technological and Industrial Development Center) within the MEDAS (Advanced Methodology for Communication Systems Development) research project.
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León, G., Yelmo, J.C., Sánchez, C., Carrasco, F.J., Gil, J.J. (1993). An industrial experience on LOTOS-based prototyping for switching systems design. In: Woodcock, J.C.P., Larsen, P.G. (eds) FME '93: Industrial-Strength Formal Methods. FME 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024640
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