Program synthesis from domain specific object models: An investigation of relational semantics, model completion and automatic code generation for object oriented systems - Softcover

Faitelson, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3639256492 ISBN 13: 9783639256499

Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Automatically generating a program from its specification eliminates a large source of errors that is often unavoidable in a manual approach. This work investigates the theory behind Booster ? a specification language and automatic code generator, developed by Dr. Ib Sørenson and his group at Oxford University's Computing Laboratory. The work focuses on three contributions: semantics, model completion and code generation. The semantics of a Booster model is a single abstract data type (ADT) where the invariants and the methods of all the model classes are promoted to the ADT. This work argues that this semantics is a better model of object oriented systems than the traditional view where each class is a separate ADT. The second contribution is the idea of model completion ? a process that augments the postconditions of methods with additional predicates that follow from the system's invariant and the method's intention. The third contribution describes a simple but effective code generation technique that is based on interpreting postconditions as executable statements and uses weakest preconditions to ensure that the generated code refines its specification.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3639256492
• ISBN 13: 9783639256499
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 164
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