Specifying Systems

Lamport, L. (2002). Specifying Systems: The TLA+ Language and Tools for Hardware and Software Engineers. Addison-Wesley.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

2002

Link

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/book.html

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Domain-specific

• Temporal logic of actions
  • Actions are relations, not imperative commands, so variables omitted from an action are not silently assumed unchanged unless the formula says so.

Mechanisms

• Consensus Safety Model Check
  • Rather than ship it and wait for a once-a-year incident, she encodes the protocol in a formal specification language

    This sourcePresents a formal specification language for encoding a protocol's promises, durability points, ballots, and recovery step.

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