Software engineering and formal methods

Mike Hinchey; Michael Jackson; Patrick Cousot; Byron Cook; Jonathan P. Bowen; Tiziana Margaria

doi:10.1145/1378727.1378742

Software engineering and formal methods

Mike Hinchey, Michael Jackson, Patrick Cousot, Byron Cook, Jonathan P. Bowen, Tiziana Margaria

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The software engineering community has applied formal methods to improve software reliability and dependability to specify, design, analyze, and implement a hardware or software system. The challenges while developing a formal model is met by experience accumulated in each particular product class and captured in a normal design discipline. Formal verification methods also include defining of semantics and specification of a complex systems. Abstract interpretation aids in reducing the complexity inherent in proving properties and correctness of complex software systems, resulting in automating reasoning. Computer-aided formal method engineering targets knowledge understanding and solves problems heterogeneously at a meta level, where whole methods and paradigms are combined.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	54-59
Number of pages	6
Journal	Communications of the ACM
Volume	51
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1378727.1378742
Publication status	Published - 1 Sep 2008

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