The SPIN Model Checker is used for both teaching software verification
techniques, and for validating large scale applications. The growing number of
users has created a need for a more comprehensive user guide and a standard
reference manual that describes the most recent version of the tool. This book
fills that need.
SPIN is used in over 40 countries. The offical SPIN web site, spinroot.com
receives between 2500 and 3000 hits per day.
It has been estimated that up to three-quarters of the $400 billion spent
annually to hire programmers in the United States is ultimately spent on
debugging
