SpinCause: a tool for causality checking

Florian Leitner-Fischer, Stefan Leue

Abstract: In this paper we present the SpinCause tool for causality checking of Promela and PRISM models. We give an overview of the capabilities of SpinCause and briefly sketch how the causality checking algorithms are integrated into the state-space exploration algorithms used for model checking. In addition we compare the runtime and memory needed for causality checking with the different state-space exploration algorithms and two newly proposed iterative causality checking approaches.