Extending the Translation from SDL to Promela

Embedding a Dialect of SDL in PROMELA

We describe a translation from a dialect of SDL-88 to PROMELA, the input language of the SPIN model checker. The fairly straightforward translation covers data types as well as processes, procedures, and services. Together with SPIN the translation provides a simulation and verification environment for most SDL features.

5 . Model Checking SDL with Spin

We present an attempt to use the model checker Spin as a verification engine for SDL, with special emphasis put on the verification of timing properties of SDL models. We have extended Spin with a front-end that allows to translate SDL to Promela (the input language of Spin), and a back-end that allows to analyse timing properties. Compared with the previous attempts, our approach allows to ver...

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Automated generation of Promela model from SDL specification

This paper presents our research in the domain of automated generation of a model from an SDL (Specification and Description Language) system specification. We use the Spin (Simple Promela Interpreter) formal verification tool and the Promela (Process Meta-Language) language for the description of the model. If the model is prepared manually, we need an expert with the detailed knowledge of the...

System Speci cation and Veri cation Using High Level Concepts

This paper describes a sample modelling and veri cation session using SDL and SPIN modelchecker via the PEP tool. We will focus on the tight integration of all involved tools allowing the user to stay within his known environment of SDL speci cation. Thus the user need not know about the underlying Petri net or the Promela language even while formulating the properties to be checked.