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KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Identifying Pre-Conditions with the Z/EVES Theorem Prover
Starting from a graphical data model (a subset of the OMT object model), a skeleton of formal specification can be generated and completed to express several constraints and provi...
Yves Ledru
KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Developing the Designer's Toolkit with Software Comprehension Models
Cognitive models of software comprehension are potential sources of theoretical knowledge for tool designers. Although their use in analysis of existing tools is fairly wellestabl...
Andrew Walenstein
KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Automated Framework for Structural Test-Data Generation
Structural testing criteria are mandated in many software development standards and guidelines. The process of generating test-data to achieve 100 coverage of a given structural c...
Nigel Tracey, John A. Clark, Keith Mander, John A....
KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Automating UI Generation by Model Composition
Automated user-interface generation environments have been criticized for their failure to deliver rich and powerful interactive applications [18]. To specify more powerful system...
Kurt Stirewalt, Spencer Rugaber
KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
From Z to BON/Eiffel
It is shown how to make a transition from the Z formal notation [3] to the Business Object Notation (BON) [4]. It is demonstrated that BON has the expressive power of Z, with the ...
Richard F. Paige, Jonathan S. Ostroff
KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Planning Equational Verification in CCS
Most efforts to automate formal verification of communicating systems have centred around finite-state systems (FSSs). However, FSSs are incapable of modelling many practical comm...
Raul Monroy, Alan Bundy, Ian Green
KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Automated Software Test Data Generation for Complex Programs
We report on GADGET, a new software test generation system that uses combinatorial optimization to obtain condition/decision coverage of C/C++ programs. The GADGET system is fully...
Christoph C. Michael, Gary McGraw
KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Towards the Automated Debugging and Maintenance of Logic-based Requirements Models
In this paper we describe a tools environment which automates the validation and maintenance of a requirements model written in many-sorted first order logic. We focus on: a trans...
T. L. McCluskey, Margaret Mary West
KBSE
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The Very Idea of Software Development Environments: A Conceptual Architecture for the ARTS Environment Paradigm
During the last three years we have been building an instantiation of a system's development paradigm, called ARTS. The paradigm consists of a view of what a system developme...
Armando Martin Haeberer, T. S. E. Maibaum