Evinrude: A Tool to Automatically Transform Program's Sources into Petri Nets
Résumé
Model checking is a suitable formal technique to analyze parallel programs’ execution in an industrial context because automated tools can be designed and operated with very limited knowledge of the underlying techniques. However, the specification must be given using dedicated notations that are not always familiar to engineers (so far, model checking on UML raises complex problems that will not be solved immediately).
This paper proposes an approach and its implementation as a tool to perform transformation of C source code into Petri nets, a suitable specification for model checking. To overcome the complexity of the resulting specification, we focus on specific aspects of the program. Hence, we never model the entire processed program, but only its relevant parts. In this paper, we will apply this approach on some examples using our
tool: Evinrude.