The ProB Animator and Model Checker for B A Tool Description
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We present ProB, an animation and model checking tool for the B method. ProB’s animation facilities allow users to gain confidence in their specifications, and unlike the animator provided by the B-Toolkit, the user does not have to guess the right values for the operation arguments or choice variables. ProB contains a temporal and a state-based model checker, both of which can be used to detect various errors in B specifications. ProB enables users to uncover errors that are not easily discovered by existing tools.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003