Towards usable and relevant model checking techniques for the analysis of dependable interactive systems

Loer, Karsten; Harrison, Michael D.

doi:10.1109/ase.2002.1115016

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“…In a similar fashion we would like to be able to perform some reverse trace analysis to determine what initial configurations and possible paths exist given any of the above properties and some undesired state x? This is similar to work performed in the area of safety critical systems analysis [36].…”

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A model-checking approach to analysing organisational controls in a loan origination process

Schaad¹,

Lotz²,

Sohr

2006

Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies - SACMAT '06

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Section: Figure 3: Safety Propertiessupporting

confidence: 63%

A model-checking approach to analysing organisational controls in a loan origination process

Schaad¹,

Lotz²,

Sohr

2006

Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies - SACMAT '06

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“…The technical requirements for an integration of this technique into a design process were identified in Loer and Harrison (2002). Three technical tasks must be addressed: (i) obtaining a model that represents relevant aspects of the interactive system (the device, the environment and user) in a form that can be used by the designer to understand and to analyse the design, (ii) supporting the formulation of property specifications representing the desired requirement and providing mechanisms that are clear in terms of allowing designers to see that a property expresses the requirement that is to be satisfied, (iii) visualising the information provided by model-checking traces so that it can be used to aid the analysis.…”

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An integrated framework for the analysis of dependable interactive systems (IFADIS): Its tool support and evaluation

Loer¹,

Harrison

2006

Autom Software Eng

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This paper discusses a method for the analysis of dependable interactive systems using model checking, and its support by a tool designed to make it accessible to a broader community. The method and the tool are designed to be of value to system engineers, usability engineers and software engineers. It has been designed to help usability engineers by making those aspects of the analysis relevant to them explicit while concealing those aspects of modelling and model checking that are not relevant. The paper presents the results of a user evaluation of the effectiveness of aspects of the tool and how it supports the proposed method.

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“…However, their adoption in practice is much lower than it could be. There are three categories of challenges in using C model checkers [1,2]: First, it is difficult to formalize the to-be-verified application-level properties at the level of C, so model checkers are used only to verify implicit C-level properties (e.g., program does no crash, no overflow occurs). However, this is often not enough for end users.…”

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Using Language Engineering to Lift Languages and Analyses at the Domain Level

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Voelter²,

Kolb³

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Developers who use C model checkers have to overcome three usability challenges: First, it is difficult to express application level properties as C-level verification conditions, due to the abstraction gap. Second, without advanced IDE support, it is difficult to interpret the counterexamples produced by the model checker and understand what went wrong in terms of application level properties. Third, most C model checkers support only a subset of C and it is easy for developers to inadvertently use C constructs outside this subset. In this paper we report on our preliminary experience with using the MPS language workbench to integrate the CBMC model checker with a set of domain-specific extensions of C for developing embedded software. Higher level language constructs such as components and decision tables makes it easier for end users to bridge the abstraction gap, to write verification conditions and to interpret the analysis results. Furthermore, the use of language workbenches allows the definition of analyzable language subsets, making the implementation of analyses simpler and their use more predictable.

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Towards usable and relevant model checking techniques for the analysis of dependable interactive systems

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

A model-checking approach to analysing organisational controls in a loan origination process

A model-checking approach to analysing organisational controls in a loan origination process

An integrated framework for the analysis of dependable interactive systems (IFADIS): Its tool support and evaluation

Using Language Engineering to Lift Languages and Analyses at the Domain Level

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