University of Konstanz
Graduiertenkolleg / PhD Program
Computer and Information Science
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 What Went Wrong : Explaining Counterexamples
 
speaker     Evghenia Stegantova
 
date    February 16, 2005
 
abstract    One of the chief adavantages of model checking is the production of the counterexamples demonstrating that a system does not satisfy a specification. However the size and the complexity of the counterexamples may cause a great deal of human effort to extract the essence of an error from even a detail source-level trace of a failing run. In the talk methods of automizing the process of finding the key elements of the error. The methods are based on the identifications of portions of the source code crucial to distinguishing failing and succeeding runs, differences in invariants between failing and nonfailing runs, and information on the necessary changes in scheduling and environmental actions needed to cause succesful runs to fail .