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2007 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Finding Environment Guarantees
verfasst von : Marsha Chechik, Mihaela Gheorghiu, Arie Gurfinkel
Erschienen in: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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When model checking a software component, a model of the environment in which that component is supposed to run is constructed. One of the major threats to the validity of this kind of analysis is the correctness of the environment model. In this paper, we identify and formalize a problem related to environment models —
environment guarantees
. It captures those cases where the correctness of the component under analysis is due solely to the model of its environment. Environment guarantees provides a model-based analog to a property-based notion of
vacuity
by identifying cases when the component is irrelevant to satisfaction of a property. The paper also presents a model checking technique for the detection of environment guarantees. We show the effectiveness of our technique by applying it to a previously published study of TCAS II, where it finds a number of environment guarantees.