An Overview of RoZ: A Tool for Integrating UML and Z Specifications

This paper presents an approach and a tool to increase specification quality by using a combination of UML and formal languages. Our approach is based on the expression of the UML class diagram and its annotations into a Z formal specification. Our tool called RoZ supports this approach by making the transition between the UML world and the Z world : from an annotated class diagram, it automatically generates a complete Z specification, the specifications of some elementary operations and some proof obligations to validate the model constraints. S. Dupuy, Y. Ledru, and M. Chabre-Peccoud. An Overview of RoZ : a Tool for Integrating UML and Z Specifications. In 12th Conference on Advanced information Systems Engineering-CAiSE’2000, volume 1789 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, SpringerVerlag, Stockholm, 2000. The original publication is available at http://www.springerlink.com. LNCS proceedings are available at : http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. ©2000 Springer-Verlag. The copyright for this contribution is held by