Generating statechart designs from scenarios
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Theoretical Computer Science
Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design
Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design
Design by Contract: The Eiffel Method
TOOLS '98 Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
TestEra: A Novel Framework for Automated Testing of Java Programs
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Counterexample-guided abstraction refinement for symbolic model checking
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Goal-Oriented Requirements Animation
RE '04 Proceedings of the Requirements Engineering Conference, 12th IEEE International
DynAlloy: upgrading alloy with actions
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Automatic extraction of abstract-object-state machines from unit-test executions
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Synthesizing intensional behavior models by graph transformation
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
OOPSLA keynote: Turing Award Lecture (reprise)
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Using contracts and Boolean queries to improve the quality of automatic test generation
TAP'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Tests and proofs
Unifying execution of imperative and declarative code
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Automated Abstractions for Contract Validation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Automatic cross validation of multiple specifications: a case study
FASE'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis
Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis
Foundations of Algebraic Specification and Formal Software Development
Foundations of Algebraic Specification and Formal Software Development
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Contracts are a popular declarative specification technique to describe the behavior of stateful components in terms of pre/post conditions and invariants. Since each operation is specified separately in terms of an abstract implementation, it may be hard to understand and validate the resulting component behavior from contracts in terms of method interactions. In particular, properties expressed through algebraic axioms, which specify the effect of sequences of operations, require complex theorem proving techniques to be validated. In this paper, we propose an automatic small-scope based approach to synthesize incomplete behavioral abstractions for contracts expressed in the JFSL notation. The proposed abstraction technique enables the possibility to check that the contract behavior is coherent with behavioral properties expressed as axioms of an algebraic specifications. We assess the applicability of our approach by showing how the synthesis methodology can be applied to some classes of contract-based artifacts like specifications of data abstractions and requirement engineering models.