Issues surrounding specification languages for software automation

Author

Cooke, Daniel E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., El Paso, TX, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

6-10 Jul 1992

Firstpage

120

Lastpage

123

Abstract

Software automation tools which assist in the building of software from specifications are described. The problems and promise of both informal and formal approaches to software automation are discussed. Specification languages which serve as the basis for a software automation tool provide the most specific basis for their discussion. Issues which need to be addressed are identified. These include the problems inherent in feature-based approaches: the lack of reasoning power inherent in some specification languages; the problems of inconsistency, ambiguity, and incompleteness; and the nonmonotonic aspects of software

Keywords

formal specification; software tools; specification languages; ambiguity; feature-based approaches; formal approaches; incompleteness; inconsistency; informal approaches; nonmonotonic aspects; reasoning power; software automation; specification languages; Artificial intelligence; Automation; Computer science; Formal languages; Problem-solving; Programming; Robustness; Software engineering; Software tools; Specification languages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Aided Software Engineering, 1992. Proceedings., Fifth International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2960-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASE.1992.200140

Filename

200140