Formal Modeling in a Commercial Setting: A Case Study
Abstract
This paper describes a case study conducted in collaboration with Nortel to demonstrate the feasibility of applying formal modeling techniques to telecommunication systems. A formal description language, SDL, was chosen by our qualitative CASE tool evaluation to model a multimedia-messaging system described by an 80-page natural language specification. Our model was used to identify errors in the software requirements document and to derive test suites, shadowing the existing development process and keeping track of a variety of productivity data.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 1999
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.cs/9906032
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cs/9906032
- Bibcode:
- 1999cs........6032W
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Software Engineering;
- F.3.1;
- K.6.3;
- D.2.7;
- D.2.5;
- D.2.1;
- C.3;
- D.2.4
- E-Print:
- 18 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Proceedings of FM'99: World Congress on Formal Methods, September 1999