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EventB2Java: A Code Generator for Event-B

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NASA Formal Methods (NFM 2016)

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Event-B is a formal specification language and a methodology used to build software systems. Formal specifications are more useful when they can be executed. An executable formal specification provides insight on the behaviour of the system being modelled w.r.t an expected behaviour. This paper presents a tool that generates executable implementations of Event-B models. The tool is implemented as a plug-in of the Rodin platform, an Eclipse IDE that provides a set of tools to work with Event-B models. Our tool has extensively been used for generating code for Event-B models of Android applications, reactive systems, Smart Cards, searching algorithms, among others. The first author regularly uses EventB2Java in teaching to help master students of Software Engineering to get a better grasp of the behaviour of a model in Event-B and to detect inconsistencies in the model.

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Notes

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    The EventB2Java tool is hosted at http://poporo.uma.pt/EventB2Java/.

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    Event-B models and respective Java code generated by EventB2Java can be reached at http://poporo.uma.pt/EventB2Java/EventB2Java_studies.html.

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  1. Innopolis University, Tatarstan, Russia

    Néstor Cataño & Víctor Rivera

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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

    Sanjai Rayadurgam

  2. NASA Ames Research Center , Moffett Field, California, USA

    Oksana Tkachuk

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Cataño, N., Rivera, V. (2016). EventB2Java: A Code Generator for Event-B. In: Rayadurgam, S., Tkachuk, O. (eds) NASA Formal Methods. NFM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9690. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40648-0_13

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