A Method of Verification in Design
Jonathan Keane, Hussak · 2000
This paper reports a study of verification in the high-level design phase of operating system development in which both rigorous and formal verification are used, where the rigorous argument is used to determine a manageable formal proof to be carried out. A 2-sorted first order temporal language is used to express several possible high-level designs and the required properties of an operating system store manager. The case of large system limits is reduced to a case of small system limits by use of a rigorous argument. Corresponding propositional temporal logic (PTL) formulae are then verified using a PTL theorem prover.