Verifying model oriented specifications through animation

Kazmierczak, Edmund; Winikoff, Michael; Dart, Philip W.

doi:10.1109/apsec.1998.733727

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“…This approach is more similar to simulation, because it does not exploit any graphical element. The approach presented in [16] suffers the same limitation. [16] clearly discusses the benefits of animation in the contest of light weight approaches to formal methods, in particular Z.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…This approach, here applied to SCR (Software Cost Reduction) specifications [13], is useful at the very early stages of systems development, and it is based on graphical animation (hereinafter briefly called animation) [10,16,19]. Animation basically consists of simulation, providing the user with a graphical interface suitable to show the state of the system by means of icons, buttons, panels, slides, and so on.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Automatic Model Driven Animation of SCR Specifications

Gargantini¹,

Riccobene²

2003

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

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Abstract. This paper introduces automatic model driven animation, a novel approach to validate requirements specifications. This approach, here applied to SCR specifications, is based on graphical animation. Automatic model driven animation consists in automatically deriving scenarios from requirements specifications; these scenarios are used to animate critical system behaviors through a graphical interface. Animation is useful at the very early stages of systems development to better understand models and requirements, to gain confidence that specifications capture informal requirements, and to detect faults. We introduce a technique, exploiting model checkers, to automatically generate animation sequences starting from requirements specifications, and we present a prototype tool for the generation and animation of scenarios.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatic Model Driven Animation of SCR Specifications

Gargantini¹,

Riccobene²

2003

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

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“…Kazmierczak et al [28] describe animation as a light-weight approach to formal methods because although it does not provide the same level of assurance as formal proof, it does provide developers with a quick and cheap alternative to formal proof. Their work is the only that presents a method for selecting animation inputs, consisting of three steps:…”

Section: Animationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pipedream [28] is another animator for Z. Pipedream transforms the specification into first-order logic to determine predicates and finite sets, which help Pipedream establish which specifications are executable. Kazmierczak et al [28] describe animation as a light-weight approach to formal methods because although it does not provide the same level of assurance as formal proof, it does provide developers with a quick and cheap alternative to formal proof.…”

Section: Animationmentioning

confidence: 99%