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Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) 5, 2-3 (2004) 158-164
Counter-example generation in symbolic abstract model-checking
Gordon Pace 1, 2, Nicolas Halbwachs 1, Pascal Raymond 1
(2004-03)

The boundaries of model-checking have been extended through the use of abstraction. These techniques are conservative, in the following sense: when the verification succeeds, the verified property is guaranteed to hold; but when it fails, it may result either from the non satisfaction of the property, or from a too rough abstraction. In case of failure, it is, in general, undecidable whether an abstract trace corresponding to a counter-example has any concrete counterparts. For debugging purposes, one usually desires to go further than giving a ldquoyes/nordquo answer (actually, a ldquoyes/donrsquot knowrdquo answer!), and look for such concrete counter-examples. We propose a solution in which we apply standard test-pattern generation technology to search for concrete instances of abstract traces.
1:  VERIMAG (VERIMAG - IMAG)
CNRS : UMR5104 – Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I – Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble - INPG
2:  Semantics & Verification Research Group (SVRG)
University of Malta
Computer Science/Embedded Systems

Computer Science/Programming Languages

Computer Science/Software Engineering
Model-checking - Abstraction - Concrete counterexample - Test pattern generation
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