The verification and validation of software through dynamic testing is an area of software
engineering where progress towards automation has been slow. In particular the automatic …

Formal methods enable computer architecture and software design to be mathematically
proved correct before they are implemented. The complexity and time-consuming nature of …

The importance of object state testing is illustrated through a simple example. We show that
certain errors in the implementation of object state behavior cannot be readily detected by …

Recently various real-time communication protocols have been proposed. In this paper, first,
we propose a timed I/O automaton model so that we can simply specify such real-time …

Limits of formal methods Page 1 Formal Aspects of Computing (1997) 9:379-394 @ 1997 BCS
Formal Aspects of Computing Limits of Formal Methods Ralf Kneuper Philipp-R6th-Weg 14 …

Abstract programs contain schematic placeholders representing potentially infinitely many
concrete programs. They naturally occur in multiple areas of computer science concerned …

Symbolic execution is a program analysis technique executing programs with symbolic
instead of concrete inputs. This principle allows for exploring many program paths at once …

Symbolic Execution (SE) enables a precise, deep program exploration by executing
programs with symbolic inputs. Traditionally, the SE community is divided into the rarely …

In this paper we investigate a component-based approach to combining formal techniques
and prototyping for user interface construction in which a single specification is used for …

Formal methods can reduce the ambiguity in specifications and provide a basis for
verification later on/spl minus/especially important for safety-critical systems. The author …