• DocumentCode
    3173094
  • Title

    Designing multiple types of spatial and non spatial databases integration model using formal specification approach

  • Author

    Man, Mustafa ; Rahim, Mohd Shafry Mohd ; Jusoh, Julaily Aida ; Zakaria, Mohammad Zaidi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    13-14 Dec. 2011
  • Firstpage
    20
  • Lastpage
    24
  • Abstract
    Most developer prefers not to use formal specification (FS) approach in designing a database system. In recent years, these approaches have been seen as rivals, a new consensus has been developed in which software developers are agreed it as complementary. Theoretically this approach can reduce the overall development time, use to provide an unambiguous and precise supplement to natural language descriptions. Focus to this point, it can be rigorously validated and verified leading to the early detection of specification errors or debugs during software development process. Correcting errors at the early development stage is cheaper than modifying a delivered system. A FS could be verified in order to explore the consequences of this specification and potentially find mistakes. After it was done, we have greater confidence that the testing of such system against the actual user requirement specification. This paper discusses the FS of spatial and non spatial Information Databases Integration (SIDIF) model as a case study.
  • Keywords
    database management systems; formal specification; program debugging; SIDIF model; debugs; formal specification; natural language description; nonspatial information database integration model; software development process; specification error; Formal specifications; Marine animals; Programming; Software; Spatial databases; Testing; Formal Specification; SIDIF Model; Software Requirements; Z Specification Language;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Engineering (MySEC), 2011 5th Malaysian Conference in
  • Conference_Location
    Johor Bahru
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1530-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MySEC.2011.6140637
  • Filename
    6140637