• DocumentCode
    3371492
  • Title

    Visualization of formal specifications

  • Author

    Kim, Soon-Kyeong ; Carrington, David

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr., Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, Qld., Australia
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    102
  • Lastpage
    109
  • Abstract
    Formal specification techniques provide precise and analyzable software specifications. However, the formal notations provided by most formal specification techniques are not easy to use and understand for most people. Our approach counters this difficulty by visualizing formal specifications. In this paper, we use various diagrams to visualize a Z specification. In our work, both static and dynamic aspects of formal specifications, including complex constraints, are included in the visualization scope
  • Keywords
    diagrams; formal specification; program visualisation; UML; Z notation; complex constraints; diagrams; dynamic aspects; ease of use; formal notations; formal specifications visualization; static aspects; understandability; Computer science; Contracts; Counting circuits; Formal specifications; Object oriented modeling; Programming profession; Software systems; Testing; Unified modeling language; Visualization;
  • 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.1999.809590
  • Filename
    809590