Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon

Model-Based Verification (MBV): Guidelines for Generating Expected Properties

David P. Gluch
Santiago Comella-Dorda
John Hudak
Grace Lewis
Chuck Weinstock

Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2002-TN-003

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This report presents a basic set of guidelines to facilitate the generation of expected properties in the context of Model-Based Verification. Expected properties are natural language statements that express characteristics of the behavior of a system-characteristics that are consistent with user expectations. Through model checking, expected properties of a system, formally expressed as claims, are analyzed against the model. This analysis can detect inconsistencies between models of the system and their expected properties and identify potential system defects.