Paper Info
Title
Generating Python Code from Object-Z Specifications
Abstract
Object-Z is an object-oriented specification language which extends the Z language with classes, objects, inheritance and polymorphism that can be used to represent the specification of a complex system as collections of objects. There are a number of existing works that mapped Object-Z to C++ and Java programming languages. Since Python and Object-Z share many similarities, both are object-oriented paradigm, support set theory and predicate calculus moreover, Python is a functional programming language which is naturally closer to formal specifications, we propose a mapping from Object-Z specifications to Python code that covers some Object-Z constructs and express its specifications in Python to validate these specifications. The validations are used in the mapping covered preconditions, post-conditions, and invariants that are built using lambda function and Pythonu0027s decorator. This work has found Python is an excellent language for developing libraries to map Object-Z specifications to Python.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.5121/ijsea.2017.8401
International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
8
4
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA), Vol.8, No.4, July 2017
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. F. Al Azzawi100.34
Mohamed Bettaz26611.13
H. M. Al-Refai300.34