Program synthesis from domain specific object models: An investigation of relational semantics, model completion and automatic code generation for object oriented systems - Couverture souple

Faitelson, David

 
9783639256499: Program synthesis from domain specific object models: An investigation of relational semantics, model completion and automatic code generation for object oriented systems
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ISBN 10 : 3639256492 ISBN 13 : 9783639256499
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2010

Synopsis

Automatically generating a program from its specification eliminates a large source of errors that is often unavoidable in a manual approach. This work investigates the theory behind Booster ? a specification language and automatic code generator, developed by Dr. Ib Sørenson and his group at Oxford University's Computing Laboratory. The work focuses on three contributions: semantics, model completion and code generation. The semantics of a Booster model is a single abstract data type (ADT) where the invariants and the methods of all the model classes are promoted to the ADT. This work argues that this semantics is a better model of object oriented systems than the traditional view where each class is a separate ADT. The second contribution is the idea of model completion ? a process that augments the postconditions of methods with additional predicates that follow from the system's invariant and the method's intention. The third contribution describes a simple but effective code generation technique that is based on interpreting postconditions as executable statements and uses weakest preconditions to ensure that the generated code refines its specification.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Automatically generating a program from its specification eliminates a large source of errors that is often unavoidable in a manual approach. This work investigates the theory behind Booster ? a specification language and automatic code generator, developed by Dr. Ib Sørenson and his group at Oxford University's Computing Laboratory. The work focuses on three contributions: semantics, model completion and code generation. The semantics of a Booster model is a single abstract data type (ADT) where the invariants and the methods of all the model classes are promoted to the ADT. This work argues that this semantics is a better model of object oriented systems than the traditional view where each class is a separate ADT. The second contribution is the idea of model completion ? a process that augments the postconditions of methods with additional predicates that follow from the system's invariant and the method's intention. The third contribution describes a simple but effective code generation technique that is based on interpreting postconditions as executable statements and uses weakest preconditions to ensure that the generated code refines its specification.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3639256492
ISBN 13 
9783639256499
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
164
Coordonnées du fabricant
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