Converting Specifications in a Subset of Object-Z to Skeletal Spec# Code for both Static and Dynamic Analysis.

Ni, Xiufeng; Zhang, Cui

doi:10.5381/jot.2008.7.8.a6

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“…We have found more than 63 published papers on the development of object-oriented programs from formal speci cations, implying the importance of advances in this research eld. For example, there are 18 papers on animating formal speci cations; 11 papers used Object-Z [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]; seven used VDM and VDM++ [19][20][21][22][23][24][25] as the source speci cation languages. In addition, there are at least 32 works focusing on re nement of formal speci cations from which 10 approaches re ned Object-Z speci cations [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35], 5 methods applied VDM++ [36][37][38][39][40], and 17 papers were published for B, Event-B, and UML-B [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]…”

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From Object-Z Specification to Groovy Implementation

2018

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So far, valuable research studies have been conducted on mapping notations of object-oriented speci cation, such as Object-Z, in di erent object-oriented programming languages, such as C++. However, the results of selecting JVM-based programming languages for mapping have not covered most of basic Object-Z structures. In this paper, the Groovy language, as a dynamic JVM-based language, is selected to overcome some of the existing limitations. As the main contribution, the rules required for mapping Object-Z speci cations to execute Groovy code are introduced. The proposed rules cover notions such as multiple inheritance, inverse speci cation of functions, functions de ned on generic de nitions, and free-type constructors. Previous methods have not covered these notions for the formal development of program from object-oriented speci cations, regardless of the selected formal speci cation language and target programming language. In addition, in this paper, the parallel composition construct is mapped to a parallel, executable code to improve the faithfulness of the nal code to the initial speci cation. A mapping rule for the class union construct is introduced, which has not yet been provided for any JVMbased language. Unlike previous works, instead of presenting the mapping rules in terms of natural languages, they are presented in terms of some formal mapping rules.

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“…It is worth mentioning that they explain mechanisms, such as inheritance, only using examples throughout the paper. As another work, Ni and Zhang [12] have developed a tool which converts Object-Z specifications into Spec# codes. However, they do not describe their mapping rules in the paper.…”

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An approach to animate Object-Z specifications using C++

Najafi

Haghighi

2012

Scientia Iranica

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Object-Z is an extension of the Z notation which facilitates specification of large, complex software by defining a system as a collection of independent classes. A number of contributions have been made so far to map Object-Z to various object-oriented languages. However, the given mapping approaches do not cover several Object-Z specification constructs, such as class union, object aggregation, object containment and some of the operation operators. Also, in much of the existing work, mapping rules are given in a very abstract form. In other words, they do not consider all cases in a detailed way needed to automate the mapping procedure. In our previous work, we partially tackled these issues; however, in this paper, we present a much more comprehensive way to animate Object-Z specifications using C++. The given method covers some constructs that have not been addressed in our previous work. Also, mapping rules are described with enough details facilitating automation. Finally, we consider some level of user interaction in our new method which increases the flexibility and efficiency of final codes from the user point of view.

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An animation approach to develop C++ code from Object-Z specifications

Najafi

Haghighi

2011

2011 CSI International Symposium on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE)

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Converting Specifications in a Subset of Object-Z to Skeletal Spec# Code for both Static and Dynamic Analysis.

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

From Object-Z Specification to Groovy Implementation

From Object-Z Specification to Groovy Implementation

An approach to animate Object-Z specifications using C++

An animation approach to develop C++ code from Object-Z specifications

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