I sometimes write blog posts about CSP, and use the FDR refinement checker to automatically check the specifications I put together. This repository contains the machine-readable CSPM files for those specifications, and some helper scripts for easily invoking FDR.
The University of Oxford provides apt and yum packages that let you install
FDR on Debian- and RPM-derived Linux distributions. I've packaged that up in a
Docker image to make it even easier. If you already have docker running on your
machine, you can just use
$ docker run [options] dcreager/fdr
to get a working copy of FDR.
There is also a refines script in this repository, which makes it easier to
run the Docker version of FDR's command-line interface. It takes care of
exposing all of the right directories on your machine inside of the container.
If I've written everything right, you should be able to run
$ ./refines [arguments]
and have it "just work"; all of the [arguments] are whatever you would expect
to pass in to FDR's actual refines command, just as if it were installed on
your machine, instead of hidden away inside of a Docker container.
FDR is not open-source, and you will have to get a license to be able to use it.
This process is mostly automated; the first time you run the refines script,
FDR will prompt you for which kind of license you want to obtain. (FDR is free
to use in many situations; the licensing prompts go into all of the details.)
The refines wrapper script makes sure to store your license file outside of
the docker container, so that you can re-use it however many times you spin up a
container to run FDR. You can find the license file in $HOME/.config/fdr.