VDM development with Ada as the target language

O'Neil, David A.

doi:10.1007/3-540-50214-9_11

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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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