Evaluation of Formal IDEs for Human-Machine Interface Design and Analysis: The Case of CIRCUS and PVSio-web

Fayollas, Camille; Martinie, Célia; Palanque, Philippe; Masci, Paolo; Harrison, Michael D.; Campos, José Creissac; Silva, Saulo Rodrigues e

doi:10.4204/eptcs.240.1

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“…The techniques described in the paper have been applied to medical devices but are clearly applicable to a broader range of systems. Preliminary studies have explored aspects of a nuclear power interface [30] and the flight control unit of a large commercial aircraft [31]. It is clear that there are many real systems whose user interfaces can be analyzed in this way.…”

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Verification Templates for the Analysis of User Interface Software Design

Harrison

Masci

Campos

2019

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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The paper describes templates for model-based analysis of usability and safety aspects of user interface software design. The templates crystallize general usability principles commonly addressed in user-centred safety requirements, such as the ability to undo user actions, the visibility of operational modes, and the predictability of user interface behavior. These requirements have standard forms across different application domains, and can be instantiated as properties of specific devices. The modeling and analysis process is carried out using the Prototype Verification System (PVS), and is further facilitated by structuring the specification of the device using a format that is designed to be generic across interactive systems. A concrete case study based on a commercial infusion pump is used to illustrate the approach. A detailed presentation of the automated verification process using PVS shows how failed proof attempts provide precise information about problematic user interface software features.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Verification Templates for the Analysis of User Interface Software Design

Harrison

Masci

Campos

2019

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…A comparison of these tools falls outside of the scope of this paper. See, for example, [10], for a comparison of PVSio-web and CIRCUS. Here, we will focus on the technological choices that were made regarding IVY 2.…”

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Ivy 2

Couto

Campos

2019

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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The IVY workbench is a model-based tool that supports the formal verification of interactive computing systems. It adopts a plugin-based architecture to support a flexible development model. Over the years the chosen architectural solution revealed a number of limitations, resulting both from technological deprecation of some of the adopted solutions and a better understanding of the verification process to support. This paper presents the redesign and implementation of the original plugin infrastructure, originating a new version of the tool: IVY 2. It describes the limitations of the original solutions and the new architecture, which resorts to the Java module system in order to solve them. CCS Concepts •Software and its engineering ! Layered systems; Publish-subscribe / event-based architectures; Model checking; •Human-centered computing ! User models; Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms;

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“…The modeling patterns used in the model generator are presented in Section 7. The simulator is a PVSio process that is invoked to interactively exercise the device model (see [24] for a detailed description of the functionalities and workflows supported by PVSio-web).…”

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A PVS-Simulink Integrated Environment for Model-Based Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems

Bernardeschi

Domenici

Masci

2018

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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This paper presents a methodology, with supporting tool, for formal modeling and analysis of software components in cyber-physical systems. Using our approach, developers can integrate a simulation of logic-based specifications of software components and Simulink models of continuous processes. The integrated simulation is useful to validate the characteristics of discrete system components early in the development process. The same logic-based specifications can also be formally verified using the Prototype Verification System (PVS), to gain additional confidence that the software design complies with specific safety requirements. Modeling patterns are defined for generating the logic-based specifications from the more familiar automata-based formalism. The ultimate aim of this work is to facilitate the introduction of formal verification technologies in the software development process of cyber-physical systems, which typically requires the integrated use of different formalisms and tools. A case study from the medical domain is used to illustrate the approach. A PVS model of a pacemaker is interfaced with a Simulink model of the human heart. The overall cyber-physical system is co-simulated to validate design requirements through exploration of relevant test scenarios. Formal verification with the PVS theorem prover is demonstrated for the pacemaker model for specific safety aspects of the pacemaker design

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Evaluation of Formal IDEs for Human-Machine Interface Design and Analysis: The Case of CIRCUS and PVSio-web

Cited by 5 publications

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Verification Templates for the Analysis of User Interface Software Design

Verification Templates for the Analysis of User Interface Software Design

Ivy 2

A PVS-Simulink Integrated Environment for Model-Based Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems

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