Where Do Operations Come From? A Multiparadigm Specification Technique

  • Authors:
  • Pamela Zave;Michael Jackson

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Research, Murray Hill, NJ;MAJ Consulting, London, UK

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue: best papers of the 1996 international symposium on software testing and analysis ISSTA'96
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We propose a technique to help people organize and write complex specifications, exploiting the best features of several different specification languages. Z is supplemented, primarily with automata and grammars, to provide a rigorous and systematic mapping from input stimuli to convenient operations and arguments for the Z specification. Consistency analysis of the resulting specificaiton is based on the structural rules. The technique is illustrated by two examples, a graphical human-computer interface and a telecommunications system.