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Experiences with incorporating formal techniques into industrial practice

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We report about experiences at Philips Healthcare with component-based development supported by formal techniques. The formal Analytical Software Design (ASD) approach of the company Verum has been incorporated into the industrial workflow. The commercial tool ASD:Suite supports both compositional verification and code generation for control components. For other components test-driven development has been used. We discuss the results of these combined techniques in a project which developed the power control service of an interventional X-ray system.

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  1. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Ammar Osaiweran

  2. Philips Healthcare, Best, The Netherlands

    Mathijs Schuts

  3. Embedded Systems Innovation by TNO, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Jozef Hooman

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Supported by ITEA project Care4Me and COMMIT project Allegio.

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Osaiweran, A., Schuts, M. & Hooman, J. Experiences with incorporating formal techniques into industrial practice. Empir Software Eng 19, 1169–1194 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-013-9251-2

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