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The TLA+ Toolbox

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: We discuss the workflows supported by the TLA+ Toolbox to write and verify specifications. We focus on features that are useful in industry because its users are primarily engineers. Two features are novel in the scope of formal IDEs: CloudTLC connects the Toolbox with cloud computing to scale up model checking. A Profiler helps to debug inefficient expressions and to pinpoint the source of state space explosion. For those who wish to contribute to the Toolbox or learn from its flaws, we present its technical architecture.

Source: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science

DOI: 10.4204/eptcs.310.6

Authors: Markus Alexander Kuppe, Leslie Lamport, Daniel Ricketts

Institutions: Microsoft (United States), Oracle (United States)

Language: English

Topic: Formal Methods in Verification

Subfield: Computational Theory and Mathematics

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: Microsoft Research, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA)

OpenAlex ID: W2995309440

FWCI: 4.527

Cites: 18

Cited by: 62

Related to: 10