A survey of structured and object-oriented software specification methods and techniques

Wieringa, Roel

doi:10.1145/299917.299919

Cited by 136 publications

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“…It is important to remark that, in general, designers define underspecified postconditions [20]. This means that, given an operation contract, there are usually several final states that satisfy its postcondition.…”

Section: List Of Correctness Propertiesmentioning

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“…In particular, this paper presents a new method for the verification of the behavioural aspects of software models defined using the design by contract approach [20], where each operation is defined by means of a contract consisting of a precondition (set of conditions on the operation input) and a postcondition (conditions to be satisfied at the end of the operation). In conceptual modeling, this is also known as the declarative specification of an operation, in contrast to imperative specifications where the set of updates produced by the operation on the system state is explicitly defined.…”

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Verifying UML/OCL Operation Contracts

Cabot

Clarisó

Riera

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In current model-driven development approaches, software models are the primary artifacts of the development process. Therefore, assessment of their correctness is a key issue to ensure the quality of the final application. Research on model consistency has focused mostly on the models' static aspects. Instead, this paper addresses the verification of their dynamic aspects, expressed as a set of operations defined by means of pre/postcondition contracts. This paper presents an automatic method based on Constraint Programming to verify UML models extended with OCL constraints and operation contracts. In our approach, both static and dynamic aspects are translated into a Constraint Satisfaction Problem. Then, compliance of the operations with respect to several correctness properties such as operation executability or determinism are formally verified.

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Section: List Of Correctness Propertiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Verifying UML/OCL Operation Contracts

Cabot

Clarisó

Riera

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…An operation contract includes a set of preconditions, which are conditions that the state of the information base must guarantee so that the operation can be executed, and a set of postconditions. The postconditions of an operation can be defined either imperatively or declaratively [32]. We will define declarative postconditions, which specify conditions that must hold after the execution of the operation.…”

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A platform independent model for the electronic marketplace domain

Queralt

Teniente

2007

Softw Syst Model

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Abstract. An electronic marketplace supports interactions between multiple users for the exchange of information on products for sale or purchase. The significance of electronic marketplaces is apparent from the huge number of websites that currently provide services in almost any area one can think of. However, the absence of clear documentation on the similarities that these sites share restricts the reutilization of software for the development of new electronic marketplaces.To improve this situation, we propose a Platform Independent Model (PIM) for the e-marketplace domain that describes both the structural and behavioral properties of a generic electronic marketplace. Specific application PIMs aimed at generating different e-marketplaces can be obtained from our generic domain PIM by adapting it to each of the requirements of the application. In this way, reutilization of our domain PIM contributes to a reduction in the cost and time involved in the development of new electronic marketplaces.

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“…The contention of [11] and [27] supported by the empirical data in the CHAOS report [3] is that object-oriented methods are underdeveloped in the specification of external functions of systems and weak in guidelines for partitioning a system into components. The work of Jacobson [12] has proven to be one of the most significant advances in software engineering.…”

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Transforming Use Case Models to Class Models and Ocl-Specifications

Roussev¹,

Wu²

2007

International Journal of Computers and Applications

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Abstract:In this paper we propose a process generating formal object-oriented specifications in OCL and class diagrams from the use case model of a system through a clearly defined sequence of model transformations. The algebraic invariant of business values exchanged in a use case guides the design of statechart descriptions for the actors and counter-actors, collectively called agents, of a use case. Each state in a statechart corresponds to a system state characterized by sending or receiving of a business object to or from the system's environment. The system class model and OCL specifications are derived from the agents' statecharts. The proposed approach fills the gap between the outside behavioral system description as offered by use cases and the "first cut" at software architecture, the analysis level class model.

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A survey of structured and object-oriented software specification methods and techniques

Cited by 136 publications

References 49 publications

Verifying UML/OCL Operation Contracts

Verifying UML/OCL Operation Contracts

A platform independent model for the electronic marketplace domain

Transforming Use Case Models to Class Models and Ocl-Specifications

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