Dear haskell-list, at Siemens Mobility I would like to improve our specifications. For that, I have the opportunity to teach the properties of our product to a student, and ask him/her to specify the product with more or less of the full power of current specification techniques. The goal for me is, to evaluate existing methods and find the best method. We work intensively with specifications, thus a big level of mathematical formalism can count, as long as the technical team likes to learn and use it. The job offering for a final thesis is at the end of the post. Beside that: What does the list think are methods that are fruitful in a commercial high-quality setting ? The implementation shall not or almost not be changed, we just want a system for test generation and analysis of the required (and hopefully correctly implemented) system. Thank you for your answers! #### Job-offering (German): https://jobs.siemens.com/careers?query=440671&pid=563156121392428&organization=Mobility&domain=siemens.com&sort_by=relevance&hl=de&triggerGoButton=false As part of your work, you can do the following tasks: Search and justify a selection of an existing textual specification method (Domain Specific Language or Framework in a proven programming language). Specify parts of our existing system with the selection and apply the specification, e.g. for test case generation or for the detection of system properties. Examine the practicality of the specification method for daily use. What do you bring? You are studying computer science or a similar field. You already have knowledge of syntax and semantics / specification methods. Ideally, you have knowledge of several imperative languages and knowledge of functional programming (e.g. Haskell, OCaml, ...). Knowledge of machine proving is an advantage. You have good German and English language skills. You can write the work in German, English or bilingual. If you would like to complete a mandatory internship in advance, this is also possible after consultation. -- Mein PGP-Schlüssel-Fingerabdruck: B3CD 2CB8 EC08 B6BD D82C 9BE1 F702 BF50 C4AF 179D oder 88E6 D1E7 9276 BC56 849C CF02 9F96 BE18 43FA 2CC0