• DocumentCode
    3372344
  • Title

    Simply observable behavioral specification

  • Author

    Matsumoto, Michihiro ; Futatsugi, Kokichi

  • Author_Institution
    Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci., Japan Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Ishikawa, Japan
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    460
  • Lastpage
    467
  • Abstract
    Behavioral specifications are for specifying behavior of software or its components. We introduce a class of “sufficient” specifications “simply observable behavioral specifications”. In the process where we add conditional equations to a behavioral specification until we obtain a simply observable behavioral specification, we can find requirements for forgettable conditions. Verification methods of behavioral properties have difficulty when target systems are complex. Induction may be necessary. Finding lemmas may be necessary. However, by using a “sufficient” specification “a simply observable behavioral specification”, i.e. by capturing requirements sufficiently, the difficulty eases
  • Keywords
    formal specification; program verification; rewriting systems; behavioral properties; conditional equations; forgettable conditions; requirements capture; simply observable behavioral specification; software behavior specification; sufficient specifications; target systems; verification methods; Equations; Information science; Network address translation; Reactive power; Software design; Specification languages; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Engineering Conference, 1999. (APSEC '99) Proceedings. Sixth Asia Pacific
  • Conference_Location
    Takamatsu
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0509-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APSEC.1999.809637
  • Filename
    809637