Industrial Deployment of System Engineering Methods

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Introduction

   • Alexander Romanovsky, Martyn Thomas

   Pages 1-3

3. Integrated Project DEPLOY

   • Alexander Romanovsky

   Pages 5-12

4. Experience of Deployment in the Automotive Industry

   • Rainer Gmehlich, Cliff Jones

   Pages 13-26

5. Improving Railway Data Validation with ProB

   • Jérôme Falampin, Hung Le-Dang, Michael Leuschel, Mikael Mokrani, Daniel Plagge

   Pages 27-43

6. Deployment in the Space Sector

   • Dubravka Ilić, Linas Laibinis, Timo Latvala, Elena Troubitsyna, Kimmo Varpaaniemi

   Pages 45-62

7. Business Information Sector

   • Sebastian Wieczorek, Vitaly Kozyura, Wei Wei, Andreas Roth, Alin Stefanescu

   Pages 63-79

8. Formal Methods as an Improvement Tool

   • Aryldo G. Russo Jr.

   Pages 81-95

9. Critical Software Technologies’ Experience with Formal Methods

   • Alex Hill, Jose Reis, Paulo Carvalho

   Pages 97-105

10. Experience of Deploying Event-B in Industrial Microprocessor Development

    • Stephen Wright, Kerstin Eder

    Pages 107-122

11. Industrial Deployment of Formal Methods: Trends and Challenges

    • John Fitzgerald, Juan Bicarregui, Peter Gorm Larsen, Jim Woodcock

    Pages 123-143

12. Introducing Formal Methods into Existing Industrial Practices

    • Martyn Thomas, Alexander Romanovsky

    Pages 145-156

13. Tooling

    • Michael Butler, Laurent Voisin, Thomas Muller

    Pages 157-185

14. Technology Transfer

    • David Basin, Thai Son Hoang

    Pages 187-196

15. After and Outside DEPLOY: The DEPLOY Ecosystem

    • Alexander Romanovsky

    Pages 197-202

16. Industrial Software Engineering and Formal Methods

    • Martyn Thomas, Alexander Romanovsky

    Pages 203-210

17. Back Matter

    Pages 211-259

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A formal method is not the main engine of a development process, its contribution is to improve system dependability by motivating formalisation where useful. This book summarizes the results of the DEPLOY research project on engineering methods for dependable systems through the industrial deployment of formal methods in software development. The applications considered were in automotive, aerospace, railway, and enterprise information systems, and microprocessor design.

 

The project introduced a formal method, Event-B, into several industrial organisations and built on the lessons learned to provide an ecosystem of better tools, documentation and support to help others to select and introduce rigorous systems engineering methods. The contributing authors report on these projects and the lessons learned. For the academic and research partners and the tool vendors, the project identified improvements required in the methods and supporting tools, while the industrial partners learned about the value of formal methods in general. A particular feature of the book is the frank assessment of the managerial and organisational challenges, the weaknesses in some current methods and supporting tools, and the ways in which they can be successfully overcome.

 

The book will be of value to academic researchers, systems and software engineers developing critical systems, industrial managers, policymakers, and regulators.

• DEPLOY project
• Dependability
• Deployment
• Engineering methods
• Event-B
• Formal methods
• Industrial deployment
• Productivity
• Software engineering
• Stepwise system development
• Systems approach
• Systems engineering
• Tool support

"This book reports on a remarkable four-year experiment in the application of scientific method to the development and delivery of software products. Participants in the experiment included seven well-reputed universities, and four industries, spanning a range of sizes, and drawn from different industrial sectors. Over 157 person-years were expended in total. This book conveys the fruits of the experience gained in the project. It gives a clear record of the successes of the project and of the challenges that remain. It should be studied by researchers who strive to advance the state of the art of programming in industry; also by innovative industries, wishing to judge the adequacy of the current state of the art to meet their future software development needs. Above all, it should be read by all who are interested in a successful model of industrial and academic collaboration, and who wish such experiments to be repeated." [Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research] 

"[T]his book describes a project that has made a major contribution towards bridging the gap between formalists and practitioners in software development for dependable systems. The detailed substance of the contribution lies in the specifics of what has been done; but the full value lies even more in the cooperative way in which the project has been carried out and the open-minded acknowledgment of challenges. This book will amply repay a careful and thoughtful reading by researchers and practitioners alike." [Michael Jackson, London]

• , School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  Alexander Romanovsky

• , Holly Lawn, Martyn Thomas Associates Ltd., Bath, United Kingdom

  Martyn Thomas

Prof. Alexander Romanovsky works in the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University; he has been working on system dependability and fault tolerance for many years, in particular on reasoning about faults and fault tolerance during early phases of system development, and he coordinated the related RODIN and DEPLOY projects.

Dr. Martyn Thomas in an industrialist who has been concerned with safety-critical and other high-dependence computer systems since the 1980s.

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