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Design and implementation of a GUI for the TLC model checker

Published:2006-12 Issue:12 Volume:41 Page:38-43
ISSN:0362-1340
Container-title:ACM SIGPLAN Notices
language:en
Short-container-title:SIGPLAN Not.

Author:

Wang B.¹,Pronk C.¹

Affiliation:

1. Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Abstract

For some time now, the TLC model checker [1] has been accepted as a very useful tool for checking specifications written in the language TLA+ [1]. The model checker helps the system designer to find errors in a specification before starting on an implementation. One facility that TLA+/TLC lacks however, is a GUI providing the user with more operational comfort. This article presents our design and implementation of a GUI for the TLA+/TLC-system, called the GTLA system. GTLA provides the user with three main facilities: a system editor, a simulator and a verifier (the TLC model checker) operable through a GUI. This article also discusses the tools which have been used for constructing the GTLA system.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Software

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1229493.1229499

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