The mCRL2 toolset

Abstract

We describe the toolset for the behavioural specification language mCRL2. The purpose of the toolset is to analyse abstract models that describe the communication behaviour of software based systems. With the help of the toolset we want to efficiently detect and prevent problems in software, preferably before it is built. The tools allow to transform specifications, generate and visualise state spaces, verify modal properties, and much more. In order to facilitate reuse of the code most of the functionality is included in libraries. This makes the toolset suitable as a platform for third party tool development and for other specification languages as well. The toolset is distributed under the Boost license, which permits such use