Showing posts with label formal method. Show all posts
Showing posts with label formal method. Show all posts

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Quotes on Formal Method, Model Checking

1. "The job of formal methods is to elucidate the assumptions upon which formal correctness depends." --Tony Hoare

2. "Software engineers want to be real engineers. Real engineers use mathematics. Formal methods are the mathematics of software engineering. Therefore, software engineers should use formal methods." --Mike Holloway

3. "Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding." --Edsger Dijkstra

4. "Formal methods will never have a signi?cant impact until they can be used by people that don't understand them." --Tom Melham

5. "We argue that proof construction is unnecessary in the case of finite state concurrent systems and can be replaced by a model-theoretic approach which will mechanically determine if the system meets a specification expressed in propositional  temporal logic." --EM Clarke