What types of applications have you used model checking for? What model checking tool did you use? How would you summarize your experience w/ the technique, specifically in evaluating its effectiveness in delivering higher quality software? In the course of my studies, I had a chance to use Spin, and it aroused my curiosity as to how...
I've been working on a project, which is a combination of an application server and an object database, and is currently running on a single machine only. Some time ago I read a paper which describes a distributed relational database, and got some ideas on how to apply the ideas in that paper to my project, so that I could make a high-av...
Our client wants us to build a web-based, rich internet application for gathering software requirements. Basically it's a web-based case tool that follows a specific process for getting requirements from stakeholders. I'm the project manager and we're still in the early phases of the project. I've been thinking about using formal meth...
I would like to know how a JML expression of the form \old(Expression[Id]) is evaluated, i.e. if I have the \old(vector[value-1]) expression, does the \old also refer to "value" or just the to the value of the vector[value-1]. Thanks in advance! ...
I took a glimpse on Hoare Logic in college. What we did was really simple. Most of what I did was proving the correctness of simple programs consisting of while loops, if statements, and sequence of instructions, but nothing more. These methods seem very useful! Are formal methods used in industry widely? Are these methods used to prov...
Hello everyone, I'm a software developer interested in information retrieval. Currently I'm working on my 3rd search engine project and am VERY frustrated about the amount of boilerplate code that is written again and again, with the same bugs, etc. Basic search engine is a very simple beast that could be described in a formal language ...
First of all, is this only possible on algorithms which have no side effects? Secondly, where could I learn about this process, any good books, articles, etc? ...
I have this grand idea to basically employ some brute force attack to test/verify that my web application doesn't crash. Don't get me started on unit testing, and IoC stuff, this is something else entirely. What I'm doing, and what I'm asking for help with is to create an intelligent exhaustive search, that explore parts of the program...
I want to be able to split a big test to smaller tests so that when the smaller tests pass they imply that the big test would also pass (so there is no reason to run the original big test). I want to do this because smaller tests usually take less time, less effort and are less fragile. I would like to know if there are test design patte...
i am working on checking model consistency of software. to do this i need to write linear temporal logic for UML 2.0 sequence diagram. if any body have any other tool for the same please response as soon as possible. I will be very obliged to you. i have found charmy tool have plugin for the same. Does anybody have source code for charmy...
How can one ensure security without formal verification of a program that runs in ring0? Could a VM be used without differing userspace kernelspace? ...