This paper describes a case study conducted in collaboration with Nortel to demonstrate the feasibility of applying formal modeling techniques to telecommunication systems. A formal description language, SDL, was chosen by our qualitative CASE tool evaluation to model a multimedia-messaging system described by an 80-page natural language specification. Our model was used to identify errors in the software requirements document and to derive test suites, shadowing the existing development process and keeping track of a variety of productivity data.
@article{arxiv.cs/9906032,
title = {Formal Modeling in a Commercial Setting: A Case Study},
author = {A. Wong and M. Chechik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/9906032},
year = {2007}
}
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18 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Proceedings of FM'99: World Congress on Formal Methods, September 1999