5th International Workshop on

Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems

Berlin, April 3-4, 2000


Automatically Verifying an Object-Oriented Specification of the Steam-Boiler System

Correctness is a desired property of industrial software systems. Although the employment of formal methods and their verification techniques in embedded real-time systems has started to be a common practice, the same cannot be said about object-oriented software. This paper presents an experiment of a technique for the automated verification of a subset of the object-oriented language OBLOG. In our setting, object-oriented models are automatically translated to LOTOS specifications using a programmable rule-based engine included in the Development Environment of the OBLOG language. The resulting specifications are then verified by model-checking using the Cadp tool-box. To illustrate the concept we develop and verify an object-oriented specification of a well known case study|the Steam-Boiler Control System.


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