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Previously, we defined a blackbox formal system modeling language called RSML (Requirements State Machine Language). The language was developed over several years while specifying the system requirements for a collision avoidance system for commercial passenger aircraft. During the language development, we received continual feed- back and evaluation by FAA employees and industry representatives, which helped us to produce a specification language that is easily learned and used by application experts.
Since the completion of the RSML project, we have continued our re- search on specification languages. This research is part of a larger effort to investigate the more general problem of providing tools to assist in developing embedded systems. Our latest experimental toolset is called SpecTRM (Specification Tools and Requirements Methodology), and the formal specification language is SpecTRM-RL (SpecTRM Requirements Language).
This paper describes what we have learned from our use of RSML and how those lessons were applied to the design of SpecTRM-RL.We discuss our goals for SpecTRM-RL and the design features that support each of these goals.
This work has been partially supported by NSF grants CCR-9624324 and CCR-9615088.
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Leveson, N.G., Heimdahl, M.P.E., Reese, J.D. (1999). Designing Specification Languages for Process Control Systems: Lessons Learned and Steps to the Future?. In: Nierstrasz, O., Lemoine, M. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC/FSE ’99. ESEC SIGSOFT FSE 1999 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1687. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48166-4_9
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