Development of Security Software: A High Assurance Methodology

Hardin, David S.; Hiratzka, T. Douglas; Johnson, D. Randolph; Wagner, Lucas; Whalen, Michael W.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10373-5_14

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“…For critical systems, it has been argued that formal methods should be applied to gain higher assurance than is possible with testing [5,124,125]. For these approaches, testing may still be performed, but the verification effort is primarily focused on performing proofs.…”

Section: Coverage Analysis and Requirements Completenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inductive Validity Cores

Ghassabani

Whalen

Gacek

et al. 2021

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Symbolic model checkers can construct proofs of properties over very complex models. However, the results reported by the tool when a proof succeeds do not generally provide much insight to the user. It is often useful for users to have traceability information related to the proof: which portions of the model were necessary to construct it. This traceability information can be used to diagnose a variety of modeling problems such as overconstrained axioms and underconstrained properties, and can also be used to measure completeness of a set of requirements over a model. We propose the notion of inductive validity cores (IVCs), which are intended to trace a property to a minimal set of model elements necessary for proof. Such cores are not unique, and algorithms for efficiently producing both single IVC and all IVCs are presented. IVCs can be used for several interesting analyses, including regression analysis for testing/proof, determination of the minimum (as opposed to minimal) number of model elements necessary for proof, the diversity examination of model elements leading to proof, and analyzing fault tolerance.

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Section: Coverage Analysis and Requirements Completenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Gacek

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IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…Interactive systems can be formally described as a composition of interactors (Hardin et al 2009). Interactors are more concrete than the agent model described in section 5.1, in that they introduce more structure to the specification by describing an interactive system as a composition of independent entities (Markopoulos 1997).…”

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“…One of the reasons is the gap between the descriptive notations most widely used by software developers and the notations required by formal methods (Lutz 2000). To alleviate the difficulties, as part of NASA's Aviation Safety Program (AvSP), Rockwell Collins and the research group on critical systems of the University of Minnesota (USA) develop the Rockwell Collins Gryphon Translator Framework (Hardin et al 2009), providing a bridge between some commercial modelling languages and various model checkers and theorem provers (Miller et al 2010). The translation framework supports Simulink, Stateflow, and SCADE models, and it generates specifications for the NuSMV, Prover, and SAL model checkers, the ACL2 and PVS theorem provers, and generates C and Ada code (Miller et al 2010) (BAT and Kind are also included as target model checkers in (Cofer et al 2012)).…”

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State of the Art on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems

Oliveira¹,

Palanque²,

Weyers³

et al. 2017

Human–Computer Interaction Series

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This chapter provides an overview of several formal approaches for the design, specification and verification of interactive systems. For each approach presented, we describe how they support both modelling and verification activities. We also exemplify their use on a simple example in order to provide the reader with a better understanding of their basic concepts. It is important to note that this chapter is not selfcontained and that the interested reader should get more details looking at the references provided. The chapter is organized to provide an historical perspective at the main contributions in the area of formal methods in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. The approaches are presented in a semi-structured way identifying their contributions alongside a set of criteria. The chapter is concluded by a summary section organizing the various approaches in two summary tables reusing the criteria previously derived.

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“…In this paper, we focus the dependability attributes on security, reliability and availability [1,2]. We introduce the Component-Based Dependable Software Design, Development and Validation methodology, supporting software system to meet requirement of the dependability.…”

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The Research of Component-Based Dependable Software Development

Deng¹,

Yi²

2010

2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology

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After analyzing the dependability of ComponentBased Software Systems, this paper brings forward the dependable software development reference model. Based on this reference model, key technologies about dependability encapsulation, dependability composition and verification and evaluation of dependability have been discussed, which can support the development of dependability for Component-Based Software Systems.

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Development of Security Software: A High Assurance Methodology

Cited by 12 publications

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Inductive Validity Cores

Inductive Validity Cores

State of the Art on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems

The Research of Component-Based Dependable Software Development

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