diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 393dd0213..9dad783c6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -12,21 +12,30 @@ New in spot 0.9.2a: interfaces: they have now been rewritten with better argument parsing, saner defaults, and they come with man pages. - - genltl: generate LTL formulas from scallable patterns - This offers 20 patterns so far. - - randltl: generate random LTL/PSL formulas - - ltlfilt: filter lists of formulas according to several criteria - (e.g., match only safety formulas that are larger than - some given size). Besides being used as a "grep" tool - for formulas, this can also be used to convert - files of formulas between different syntaxes, apply - some simplifications, check whether to formulas are - equivalent, ... - - ltl2tgba translate LTL/PSL formulas into Büchi automata. A - fondamental change to the interface is that you may - now specify the goal of the translation: do you - you favor deterministic or smaller automata? - - ltl2tgta translate LTL/PSL formulas into Testing Automata. + - genltl: Generate LTL formulas from scallable patterns. + This offers 20 patterns so far. + + - randltl: Generate random LTL/PSL formulas. + + - ltlfilt: Filter lists of formulas according to several criteria + (e.g., match only safety formulas that are larger than + some given size). Besides being used as a "grep" tool + for formulas, this can also be used to convert + files of formulas between different syntaxes, apply + some simplifications, check whether to formulas are + equivalent, ... + + - ltl2tgba: Translate LTL/PSL formulas into Büchi automata. A + fondamental change to the interface is that you may + now specify the goal of the translation: do you + you favor deterministic or smaller automata? + + - ltl2tgta: Translate LTL/PSL formulas into Testing Automata. + + - ltlcheck: A tool to find bugs in translators from LTL/PSL to + Büchi automata. This is essentially a Spot-based + reimplementation of LBTT that supports PSL in addition + to LTL, and that can output more statistics. These binaries are built in the src/bin/ directory. The former test versions of genltl and randltl have been removed from the @@ -62,9 +71,9 @@ New in spot 0.9.2a: + output in dot format for display A discussion of these automata, part of Ala Eddine BEN SALEM's - PhD work, should appear in a future edition of ToPNoC. - The web-based interface can build and display these testing - automata. + PhD work, should appear in ToPNoC VI (LNCS 7400). The web-based + interface and the aformentioned ltl2tgta tool, can be used + to build testing automata. - TGBA can now be reduced by Reverse Simulation (in addition to the Direct Simulation introduced in 0.9). A function called