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CISC422: Formal Methods in Software Engineering (Winter 2012)

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Alloy
Specification and automatic analysis of object models. Developed at MIT. The
Alloy page

ArgoUML
Tool for drawing UML models. Developed by Tigris. The
ArgoUML page

Bandera
Program analysis tool for Java programs. Developed at Kansas State University. The
Bandera page

Bogor
Customizable software model checking tool. Developed at Kansas State University (KSU). The
Bogor page at KSU. The Bogor page at Queen's.

Spec#
The
Spec# Programming System.

CMU SMV
First symbolic branching time model checker. Developed at CMU. The
CMU SMV page

CodeSurfer
Commercial program analysis tool. Developed by
Grammatech. The CodeSurfer page

Daikon
Automatically extracts invariants from C programs. Developed at University of Washington.

ESC/Java
Extended static checking tool for Java. Developed at Dec/Compaq Systems Research Lab. The
ESC/Java page

Jape
Jape is a framework for building interactive proof editors developed at Oxford and London. We, however, will use it only as a proof checker for first-order natural deduction proofs. The home page is
here.

Java PathFinder
Model checker for Java. Developed at NASA AMES. The
Java PathFinder page.

LCLint
Developed at MIT and University of Virginia. The
LCLint page

ModEx
Software model checker based on Spin. Modex is a tool that can be used to mechanically extract high-level verification models from implementation level C code. Developed by Gerard Holzmann at Bell Labs. The
ModEx page

IBM Rational Rose Technical Developer (aka Rational Rose Real Time)
A visual-modeling system for the development of real-time systems that allows you to model your application and automatically generate all of the code required to build the application. More info is
here.

SLAM
Verification tool for C programs. Developed at Microsoft Research. The
SLAM page.

NuSMV
NuSMV is an open-source implementation of CMU SMV developed and maintained at ITC-IRST in Trento, Italy. The
NuSMV page

SPIN
Linear time model checker. Developed at Bell Labs. The
Spin page

UppAal
Integrated tool environment for modeling, validation and verification of real-time systems. Developed at University of Uppsala (Sweden) and University of Aalborg (Denmark). The
Uppaal page

USE
Tool for validation of UML models and OCL specifications. Developed at University of Bremen (Germany). The
USE page

Verisoft
Automatic testing and state enumeration tool for C and C++ programs. Developed at Bell Labs. The
VeriSoft page

Z/Eves
Theorem proving tool for Z specifications. Developed at ORA Canada. The
Z/Eves page

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