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2005 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
How Thorough Is Thorough Enough?
verfasst von : Arie Gurfinkel, Marsha Chechik
Erschienen in: Correct Hardware Design and Verification Methods
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Abstraction is the key for effectively dealing with the state explosion problem in model-checking. Unfortunately, finding abstractions which are small and yet enable us to get conclusive answers about properties of interest is notoriously hard. Counterexample-guided abstraction refinement frameworks have been proposed to help build good abstractions iteratively. Although effective in many cases, such frameworks can include unnecessary refinement steps, leading to larger models, because the abstract verification step is not as conclusive as it can be in theory. Abstract verification can be supplemented by a more precise but much more expensive
thorough
check, but it is not clear how often this check really helps. In this paper, we study the relationship between model-checking and thorough checking and identify practical cases where the latter is not necessary, and those where it can be performed efficiently.