THE EASST NEWSLETTER Bogor: An Extensible Framework for Domain-Specific Model Checking

Model checking has proven to be an effective technology for verification and debugging in hardware and more recently in software domains. We believe that recent trends in both the requirements for software systems and the processes by which systems are developed suggest that domain-specific model checking engines may be more effective than general purpose model checking tools. To overcome limitations of existing tools which tend to be monolithic and nonextensible, we have developed an extensible and customizable model checking framework called Bogor. In this article, we summarize how Bogor provides direct support for modeling objectoriented designs and implementations, and how its modeling language and algorithms can be extended and customized to create domain-specific model checking engines.