Towards feature-oriented specification and development with event-B

  • Authors:
  • Michael R. Poppleton

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

  • Venue:
  • REFSQ'07 Proceedings of the 13th international working conference on Requirements engineering: foundation for software quality
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A proposal is made for the development of a feature-oriented reuse capability for safety-critical software construction using rigorous methods. We précis the Event-B language - the evolution of the B-Method of J.-R. Abrial [1] - a leading formal method for safety-critical software development. Current and new infrastructure for scalable development with Event-B is outlined, and contrasted with support required for feature-oriented development. The proposal is illustrated by a small example of feature-oriented construction and refinement with Event-B.