Experiences with using Alloy in real-world projects

Question

I have been interested in formal methods for some time. I have used formal methods to reason about some very specific sub-areas of a few projects I have been working on. I was n

Answer 1

Yes, I've used Alloy and it's cousins industrially. Alloy has been most helpful in convincing me that my models weren't wildly wrong---or rather, showing me where they were wrong and gave rise to silly results. Other more specific tools, like Song's Athena and Guttman and Ramsdell's CPSA have been more useful in their narrower domains. What more would you like to hear about?