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by dotancohen 1479 days ago

  > A bug to investigate? => maybe this modeling tool I read on HN can be of help...
Please share any insights you've gleaned from this. I currently have no pending bugs, but good tools are hard to come by.
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ATM I'm looking for bugs I can address with either TLA+[1] (hello concurrency) or Alloy[2] (hello design exploration).

Other times I had some linear algebra stuff I was working on, so I learned a bit of Octave[3] to generate test cases with a (hopefully) correct implementation.

I'm still looking for opportunities to try Z3[4] though... (e.g. http://phrack.org/issues/69/4.html#article see "How I Cheat at Maths - Z3 101").

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

2: https://alloytools.org/

3: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index

4: https://github.com/z3prover/z3

I'm just waiting for a system to describe in TLA+. I've been eyeballing it from afar for years without needing it yet.