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Writing a formal specification for real-life, industrial problems is a difficult and error prone task, even for experts in formal methods. In the process of specifying a formal model for later refinement and implementation it is crucial to get approval and feedback from domain experts to avoid the costs of changing a specification at a late point of the development. But understanding formal models written in a specification language like B requires mathematical knowledge a domain expert might not have. In this paper we present a new tool to visualize B Machines using the ProB animator and Macromedia Flash. Our tool offers an easy way for specifiers to build a domain specific visualization that can be used by domain experts to check whether a B specification corresponds to their expectations.
This research is being carried out as part of the EU funded research projects: IST 511599 RODIN (Rigorous Open Development Environment for Complex Systems).
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Bendisposto, J., Leuschel, M. (2006). A Generic Flash-Based Animation Engine for ProB. In: Julliand, J., Kouchnarenko, O. (eds) B 2007: Formal Specification and Development in B. B 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4355. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11955757_26
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