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The B-method

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VDM '91 Formal Software Development Methods (VDM 1991)

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The B-method is designed to provide a homogeneous language and a methodology for the formal specification, design and implementation of real-life software systems. Therefore, the features of incremental construction and proof have been guiding principles in its development. A full account of the B-method and its theoretical foundations is to appear shortly as a book by J.-R. Abrial. An environment, the B Toolkit, supports formal development activities from specification to coding. The toolkit itself is supported by a platform, the B-tool, which is now commercially available from Edinburgh Portable Compilers Ltd. The B Toolkit will soon be ready for alpha testing, and it is planned to make it commercially available in due course.

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  1. B-Tool User Manual and B-Tool Reference Manual. Edinburgh Portable Compilers Ltd., 1991.

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  2. Dijkstra, E.W. A Discipline of Programming. Prentice Hall, 1976.

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  3. Abrial, J.-R. A Formal Approach to Large Software Construction, in Mathematics of Program Construction (ed. J. L. A. van de Snepscheut). Springer Verlag, 1989.

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  1. J. -R. Abrial (Consultant to BP Research)

    Present address: , 26 rue des Plantes, Paris, France

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  1. Information Science and Engineering Branch BP Research, Sunbury Research Centre Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 7LN, Middx, UK

    J. -R. Abrial (Consultant to BP Research), M. K. O. Lee, D. S. Neilson, P. N. Scharbach & I. H. Sørensen

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  1. J. -R. Abrial
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Søren Prehn Hans Toetenel

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Abrial, J.R., Lee, M.K.O., Neilson, D.S., Scharbach, P.N., Sørensen, I.H. (1991). The B-method. In: Prehn, S., Toetenel, H. (eds) VDM '91 Formal Software Development Methods. VDM 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 552. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020001

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