Domain analysis of formal model checking tools

Finding faults in early stages of software development decreases the cost of testing and increases system reliability. For safety-critical software, it is vital to perform throughly verification procedures. Model-Checking can find many faults in an early stages, and therefore, it represent an important verification approach. In this paper, we use domain engineering to capture important features of model-checking tools. We used FODA method (Feature Oriented Domain Analysis) to describe the common features of important model-checking tools. We expect our results to help software engineers to identify tools that better fit their needs. Our results can also help in improving these tools.