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This paper reviews past work done by our group in the area of formal specification for reactive, real-time systems. Different approaches are discussed, emphasizing their ability to verify formal specifications and systematically derive test cases for the implementation. The specification languages reviewed here are TB nets (a specification formalism belonging to the class of high-level Petri nets) and TRIO (a real-time temporal logic language).
This material is based upon work supported by the Esprit project IPTES, and by the Progetto Finalizzato Sistemi Informatici e Calcolo Parallelo (CNR).
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Ghezzi, C., Felder, M., Bellettini, C. (1993). Real-time systems: A survey of approaches to formal specification and verification. In: Sommerville, I., Paul, M. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC '93. ESEC 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57209-0_3
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