Command-line tools installed by Spot 1.99.7
Table of Contents
This document introduces command-line tools that are installed with the Spot library. We give some examples to highlight possible use-cases but shall not attempt to cover all features exhaustively (please check the man pages for further inspiration).
Conventions
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echo Hello World
And the output of such a command is formatted as follows, with a magenta line on the left:
Hello World
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Documentation common to multiple tools
Command-line tools
randltl
Generate random LTL/PSL formulas.ltlfilt
Filter and convert LTL/PSL formulas.genltl
Generate LTL formulas from scalable patterns.ltl2tgba
Translate LTL/PSL formulas into Büchi automata.ltl2tgta
Translate LTL/PSL formulas into Testing automata.ltlcross
Cross-compare LTL/PSL-to-Büchi translators.ltlgrind
List formulas similar to but simpler than a given LTL/PSL formuladstar2tgba
Convert automata with any acceptance into variants of Büchi automata.randaut
Generate random automata.autfilt
Filter and transform automata.ltldo
Run LTL/PSL formulas through other tools using common input and output interfaces.
Man pages
In addition to the above illustrated documentation, Spot also installs
man pages for all these tools. These man pages are mostly generated
automatically from the --help
output of each tool, and often
completed with additional text (like examples or bibliography). For
convenience, you can browse their HTML versions:
autfilt
(1),
dstar2tgba
(1),
genltl
(1),
ltl2tgba
(1),
ltl2tgta
(1),
ltlcross
(1),
ltldo
(1),
ltlfilt
(1),
randaut
(1),
randltl
(1),
spot-x
(7).
Advanced use-cases
Citing
If you want to refer to these tools in an article, please cite one of the following articles:
- Manipulating LTL formulas using Spot 1.0, Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
In Proc. of ATVA'13, LNCS 8172, pp. 442–445. Hanoi, Vietnam,
Oct. 2013. (bib | pdf | slides)
This focuses on
ltlfilt
,randltl
, andltlcross
. - LTL translation improvements in Spot 1.0, Alexandre Duret-Lutz.
Int. J. on Critical Computer-Based Systems, 5(1/2):31–54, March 2014.
(bib | pdf)
This describes the translation from LTL to TGBA used by
ltl2tgba
andltl2tgta
. - Model checking using generalized testing automata, Ala Eddine Ben
Salem, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, and Fabrice Kordon. In
Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency (ToPNoC
VI), 7400:94–112, 2012. (bib | pdf)
This describes the generalized testing automata produced by
ltl2tgta
.
Check the man page for each tool for additional references about the algorithms or data sources used.