
We are please at the following paper has been accepted in the 20th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS). Please find the title and abstract below. Title and corresponding authors: Symbolic Model Checking of stutter invariant properties Using Generalized Testing Automata. A. Ben Salem(1), A. Duret-Lutz(1), F. Kordon(2), and Y. Thierry-Mieg(2) (1) LRDE-EPITA, www.lrde.epita.fr (2) UPMC-LIP6, www.lip6.fr Abstract: Previous work showed that a kind of omega-automata known as Transition-based Generalized Testing Automata (TGTA) can outperfrom the Büchi automata traditionally used for \textit{explicit} model checking when verifying stutter-invariant properties. In this work, we investigate the use of these generalized testing automata to improve \textit{symbolic} model checking of stutter-invariant LTL properties. We propose an efficient symbolic encoding of stuttering transitions in the product between a model and a TGTA. Saturation techniques available for decision diagrams then benefit from the presence of stuttering self-loops on all states of TGTA. Experimentation of this approach confirms that it outperforms the symbolic approach based on (transition-based) Generalized Büchi Automata.