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Formal methods reality check: Industrial usage

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FME '93: Industrial-Strength Formal Methods (FME 1993)

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Based on a systematic survey and analysis of the use of formal methods in the development of a dozen industrial applications, we summarize the methods being used, characterize the styles of industrial usage, and provide recommendations for evolutionary enhancements to the technology base of formal methods.

The industrial applications ranged from reverse engineering to system certification; code scale ranges from 1 KLOC to 10 KLOCs. Applications included a software infrastructure for oscilloscopes; a shutdown system for a nuclear generating station; a train protection system; an airline collision avoidance system; an engine monitoring system for shipboard engines; attitude control of satellites; security properties of both a smartcard device and a network; arithmetic units; transaction processing; a real-time database for a medical instrument; and a restructuring program for COBOL.

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  1. Dan Craigen, Susan Gerhart, Ted Ralston: An International Survey of Industrial Applications of Formal Methods. Reports to be published by NIST, NRL, and AECB, 1993.

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  2. Susan Gerhart, Dan Craigen, Ted Ralston: Observations on Industrial Practice Using Formal Methods. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, (May 1993).

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  3. Dan Craigen, Susan Gerhart, Ted Ralston: Comments on the Industrial Usage of Z. In Proceedings of the 7th Z User Meeting, London, England, (December 1992).

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  1. ORA, Canada

    Dan Craigen

  2. National Science Foundation, Canada

    Susan Gerhart

  3. Ralston Research Associates, Canada

    Ted Ralston

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  1. Dan Craigen
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James C. P. Woodcock Peter G. Larsen

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Craigen, D., Gerhart, S., Ralston, T. (1993). Formal methods reality check: Industrial usage. 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/BFb0024650

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