Coupling-based transformations of Z specifications into UML diagrams
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
Is there evolution before birth? deterioration effects of formal Z specifications
ICFEM'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Formal methods and software engineering
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When kept up-to-date, formal specifications can act as valid artifacts for maintenance tasks. However, their linguistic density and size impede comprehension, reuse, and change activities. Techniques such as specification slicing and chunking help in reducing the number of relevant lines of text to be considered, but they expect the point of change to be known a priori. This contribution presents a process model for concept location within formal Z-specifications. It also considers those situations when the location is not even roughly known. The identification is comparable to the identification of regions with high cohesion. The approach is based on the idea of first transforming the specification to an augmented graph and, secondly, on the generation of spacial clusters. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.