Transformations of Specifications and Proofs to Support an Evolutionary Formal Software Development
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@MISC{Saarlandes_transformationsof,
author = {Universität Des Saarlandes and Dekan Prof and Dr. -ing Thorsten Herfet and Vorsitzender Prof and Dr. Gert Smolka and Akademischer Mitarbeiter and Dr. Dieter Hutter and Gutachter Prof and Dr. Jörg and H. Siekmann and Universität Des Saarlandes and Prof Dr and Bernd Krieg-brückner and Dr. Alan Smaill},
title = {Transformations of Specifications and Proofs to Support an Evolutionary Formal Software Development},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Like other software engineering activities, formal modelling needs to deal with change: bugs and omissions need to be corrected, and changes from the outside need to be dealt with. In the context of axiomatic specifications and (partly) interactive proofs, the main obstacle is that changes invalidate proofs, which then need to be rebuilt using an inhibitive amount of resources. This thesis proposes to solve the problem by considering the state of a formal development consisting of (potentially buggy) specification and (potentially partial) proofs as one entity and transforming it using preconceived transformations. These transformations are operationally motivated: how would one patch the proofs on paper given a consistent transformation for the specification? They are formulated in terms of the specification and logic language, so as to be usable for several application domains. In order to make the approach compatible with the architecture of existing
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