A logic model checker can be an effective tool for debugging software applications. A stumbling block can be that model checking tools expect the user to supply a formal statement...
Margaret H. Smith, Gerard J. Holzmann, Kousha Etes...
Philips Electronics is a world wide electronics company that develops many products containing embedded software. These products range from shavers with only few hundred bytes of ...
Design rules express constraints on the behavior and structure of a program. These rules can help ensure that a program follows a set of established practices, and avoids certain ...
The heterogeneity and dynamism of today’s software systems make it difficult to assess the performance, correctness, or security of a system outside the actual time and context ...
Concurrent software is difficult to verify. Because the thread schedule is not controlled by the application, testing may miss defects that occur under specific thread schedules. T...