From a B formal specification to an executable code: application to the relational database domain

Authors:
Amel Mammar;Régine Laleau
Affiliations:
University of Luxembourg, SE2C, 6 Rue Richard Courdenhove-Kalergi, L-1359 Kirchberg, Luxembourg;University of Paris 12, LACL, IUT Fontainebleau, Route Forestière Hurtault, 77300 Fontainebleau, France
Venue:
Information and Software Technology
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a formal approach for the development of trustworthy database applications. This approach consists of three complementary steps. Designers start by modeling applications using UML diagrams dedicated to database applications domain. These diagrams are then automatically translated into B specifications suitable not only for reasoning about data integrity checking but also for the derivation of trustworthy implementations. In this paper, we present a process based on the B refinement technique for the derivation of a SQL relational implementation, embedded in the JAVA language (JAVA/SQL), from a B specification obtained by the first translation phase.