Formal Specification Generation from Requirement Documents

Authors:
Gustavo Cabral;Augusto Sampaio
Affiliations:
Centro de Informática - CIn, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Recife, Brazil and Mobile Devices R&D Motorola Industrial Ltda, Rod SP 340 - Km 128,7 A - 13820 000, Jaguariuna, Brazil;Centro de Informática - CIn, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE, Recife, Brazil
Venue:
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Automatic generation of formal specifications from requirement reduces cost and complexity of formal models creation. Thus, the generated formal model brings the possibility to carry out system property verification. This paper proposes a Controlled Natural Language (CNL, a subset of English), use case specification templates, and a strategy and tool support to generate process algebraic formal models (in CSP notation) from use cases specified using the templates and CNL. We define templates that represent requirement at different levels of abstraction. Moreover, a refinement notion is defined based on events mapping between abstract and concrete models.