The embedded software of an electricity meter: An experience in using formal methods in an industrial project

Abstract

Abstract. This article releases an industrial experiment of using formal methods to conceive, design, develop and test an embedded software in a massproduced device.

Formal methods

“…-Devices. A Tektronix family of oscilloscopes [Delisle and Garlan 1990]; a Schlumberger line of household electricity meters [Arnold et al 1996]. -Hardware.…”

An example of use of formal methods to debug an embedded software

“…The different aspects of this collaboration, and peculiarly the different ways formal methods have been combined and applied in the project, have been presented in [4].…”