From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Checking Ada against formal specifications.
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 05:26:20 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-05-27T05:26:20-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1da5985e-5e35-48c3-a362-db440c1fae2b@t10g2000vbg.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83d47b94-64bd-41ab-8efe-f142e64bf0f5@s20g2000vbp.googlegroups.com
On May 27, 1:19 pm, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Are there any free tools for checking Ada against external
> formal specifications (perhaps written in Z or some other
> language) or annotations?
>
> I see there used to be one called Anna but the site hosted
> on stanford.edu seems to have vanished.
>
> I'm not counting SPARK as a free tool (regardless, the SPARK
> binaries crash on my copy of debian and don't work at all on
> my actual development platform (FreeBSD)).
I haven't heard of such a thing for ages...late 80's.
Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland had a tool that took Z,
converted that to SML/NJ and then on to Ada83 - don't think it was
ever release into the open though...
I'd be interested in anything that you uncover!
Cheers
-- Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-27 12:19 Checking Ada against formal specifications xorquewasp
2009-05-27 12:26 ` Martin [this message]
2009-05-27 13:47 ` info
2009-05-27 14:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-05-27 14:46 ` xorquewasp
2009-05-27 17:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-06-04 19:06 ` xorquewasp
2009-06-04 19:22 ` roderick.chapman
2009-06-04 20:05 ` xorquewasp
2009-06-04 21:07 ` roderick.chapman
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