Software Development with Object-Z, CSP, and Java: A Pragmatic Link from Formal Specifications to Programs
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Object-Z and CSP are high level specification languages which offer powerful formal support for the design of distributed, communicating systems. Java is an ideal implementation language for such systems. But developing provably correct Java implementations from these specifications is notoriously difficult. To bridge this gap we suggest to use Jass, which extends Java with assertions, as an intermediate language. These assertions can be generated automatically from Object-Z and CSP specifications. This does not guarantee a provably correct implementation, but allows an easy way of testing and linking error messages directly to the formal specification.
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