Requirements to Design to Code: Towards a Fully Formal Approach to Automatic Code Generation

Hinchey, Michael G

ISBN 10: 1289254583 / ISBN 13: 9781289254582

Published by Bibliogov, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Requirements to Design to Code: Towards a Fully Formal Approach to Automatic Code Generation
• Publisher: Bibliogov
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1289254583
• ISBN 13: 9781289254582
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A general-purpose method to mechanically transform system requirements into a provably equivalent model has yet to appear. Such a method represents a necessary step toward high-dependability system engineering for numerous possible application domains, including sensor networks and autonomous systems. Currently available tools and methods that start with a formal model of a system and mechanically produce a provably equivalent implementation are valuable but not sufficient. The gap that current tools and methods leave unfilled is that their formal models cannot be proven to be equivalent to the system requirements as originated by the customer. For the classes of systems whose behavior can be described as a finite (but significant) set of scenarios, we offer a method for mechanically transforming requirements (expressed in restricted natural language, or in other appropriate graphical notations) into a provably equivalent formal model that can be used as the basis for code generation and other transformations.