Oliveira, M.V.M and Xavier, M.A and Cavalcanti, A.L.C. (2004) Refine and Gabriel: Support for Refinement and Tactics. In: Software Engineering and Formal Methods, 2004. SEFM 2004. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on. IEEE Computer Society Press pp. 310-319. ISBN 0-7695-2222-X .
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Abstract
Using Morgan's refinement calculus, we can write software in a precise and consistent way. Nevertheless, this may involve long and repetitive developments. Several refinement strategies are useful in different developments, and even in different points of a single development. A lot is gained by identifying these strategies, documenting them as tactics, and using them as single transformation rules. With this motivation, we have designed ArcAngel, a tactic language especially tailored for refinement; we have formalised its semantics and studied its algebraic laws. Even with the use of tactics, however, refinement can be a hard task and the use of tools is essential in practice. In this paper, we present Refine and Gabriel, interactive, user-friendly tools that allow us to use the refinement calculus with the support of ArcAngel tactics.
| Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | Refinement Calculus, Tactics, Tool Support |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing > Systems Architecture Group |
| Depositing User: | Mark Wheadon |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2008 18:01 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2009 06:00 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14109 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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