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In this paper, we describe how formal specification is adopted to improve the commonly used verification and validation technique known as program inspection, in order to establish a more rigorous, repeatable, and efficient inspection process than the conventional practice. We present a systematic approach to inspecting program code on the basis of the relation between functional scenarios defined in a specification and execution paths implemented in its program. We report a prototype tool for the approach to support both forward and backward inspection strategies, and a case study of inspecting an Automatic Teller Machine system to evaluate the performance of the approach and the tool.
This work is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan under Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas (No. 16016279).
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Liu, S., Nagoya, F., Chen, Y., Goya, M., McDermid, J.A. (2005). An Automated Approach to Specification-Based Program Inspection. In: Lau, KK., Banach, R. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3785. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11576280_29
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