Re:Formal Methods: Just Good Engineering Practice? (2024)
by constantcrying on Friday January 10, 2025 @11:38AM
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Completely agree, but obviously you relied on the state machine being sufficiently separate and having a formal specification for it.
State machines are quite common, in aerospace software, where the requirements even specify the states and transitions. If you can formally verify them, I believe, you absolutely should, as often there can be a lot of subtlety going on there, especially if you have a distributed system of state machines sending messages to one another.
State machines are quite common, in aerospace software, where the requirements even specify the states and transitions. If you can formally verify them, I believe, you absolutely should, as often there can be a lot of subtlety going on there, especially if you have a distributed system of state machines sending messages to one another.