Systematic software development using VDM
Systematic software development using VDM
Modern structured analysis
Software engineering with abstractions
Software engineering with abstractions
Software requirements & specifications: a lexicon of practice, principles and prejudices
Software requirements & specifications: a lexicon of practice, principles and prejudices
An undergraduate course in formal methods: “description is our business”
SIGCSE '98 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special issue: papers from the international conference on very large data bases: September 22–24, 1975, Framingham, MA
Practical Formal Methods with VDM
Practical Formal Methods with VDM
Formal Methods: Mathematics, Computer Science, or Software Engineering?
CSEET '00 Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Software Engineering Education & Training
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In a first course in formal methods for software engineers, the emphasis on the topic of logic should be on using (first-order predicate) logic to specify and formally describe properties. In this paper, we suggest using ERDs (Entity-Relationship Diagrams) as support for formalization exercises. Starting from graphical descriptions (ERDs) and textual informal specification of various constraints, students have to produce an equivalent textual and formal specification. We present the notation we use in our course (Spec), some heuristics to obtain the formal concepts from ERDs and a small example.