The Ifad Vdm-sl Toolbox: a Practical Approach T O F Ormal Speciications
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چکیده
The IFAD VDM SL Toolbox is a collection of tools for formal speci cations development using the latest version of the VDM SL standard In addition to the full language it also supports a module based structur ing mechanism for large speci cations The Toolbox features extensive semantics checking documentation support test coverage analysis and debugging support We have focused on supporting real life speci cations development in industrial settings This paper presents the Toolbox and also reports on our own experience us ing it for the development of large speci cations
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