Paper Info
Title
Refine and Gabriel: Support for Refinement and Tactics
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/SEFM.2004.37
SEFM
Keywords
Field
DocType
refinement strategy,algebraic law,different point,refinement calculus,single development,hard task,repetitive development,different development,arcangel tactic,single transformation rule,formal specification
Programming language,Refinement calculus,Computer science,Formal specification,Software,Refinement,Semantics,Computer programming,Algebraic laws
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2222-X
11
0.90
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcel Oliveira117212.57
Manuela Xavier2191.87
Ana Cavalcanti366859.95