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Formal Verification of QVT Transformations for Code Generation

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Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2011)

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We present a formal calculus for operational QVT. The calculus is implemented in the interactive theorem prover KIV and allows to prove properties of QVT transformations for arbitrary meta models.

Additionally we present a framework for provably correct Java code generation. The framework uses a meta model for a Java abstract syntax tree as the target of QVT transformations. This meta model is mapped to a formal Java semantics in KIV. This makes it possible to formally prove with the QVT calculus that a transformation always generates a Java model (i.e. a program) that is type correct and has certain semantical properties. The Java model can be used to generate source code by a model-to-text transformation or byte code directly.

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Stenzel, K., Moebius, N., Reif, W. (2011). Formal Verification of QVT Transformations for Code Generation. In: Whittle, J., Clark, T., Kühne, T. (eds) Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6981. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24485-8_39

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