How Symbolic Animation can help designing an Efficient Formal Model
Résumé
This paper presents a non-conventional application of symbolic animation. We propose to assist the modeller in building an efficient formal model, by automatically detecting potential weaknesses or imprecisions in the model. We propose to detect inconsistencies within the formal models written with pre- and postconditions, and to point out unusual model properties, such as a weak invariant or unreachable effects. Our approach is based on constraint solving technologies to perform the animation and to detect the various problems.