On the Integration of Formal Methods: Events and Scenarios in PVS and VDM

Abstract

Tool support is known to be one of the success factors in formal specification based analysis and -program development. This paper investigates tool support in the context of a case study where a wide range of tool features is required: For an access control, C++ code has to be developed based on the user’s requirements expressed in natural language.

The access control has been classified a mixed data-control problem. This paper discusses (1) why VDMTools and PVS have been selected and (2) how they can be used together. Another aspect is the use of VDM as a framework for modeling event based systems. In our approach to tool integration, two specifications are considered to share a common part. For the present application this part consists of the scenario of all possible events.

Affiliations

Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf

Seibersdorf, Austria

and

Institute for Software Technology, Technical University of Graz

Graz, Austria

Conference

Publication date: July 1999

Publication date (Print): July 1999

Pages: 1-17

ID: 10.14236/ewic/IWFM1999.4

Copyright statement: © Georg Droschl. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. 3rd Irish Workshop on Formal Methods

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Conference name: 3rd Irish Workshop on Formal Methods

Conference acronym: IWFM

Conference number: 3

Conference location: Galway, Ireland

Conference date: 1st - 2nd July 1999

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Formal Methods

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing