Ayodele A. Adesina-Ojo
ABSTRACT
Formal methods have been shown to be beneficial in increasing the quality of and confidence in software systems. The adoption of formal methods in industry has however been limited where the use of informal and semi-formal notations is favoured. To bridge the gap between the ease-of-use of semi-formal notations and correctness of formal methods, a number of approaches to the formalisation of semi-formal notations have been proposed. Two of these approaches are discussed in this paper on the strength of a case study. It is shown that each approach offers results that differ in terms of levels of abstraction, requisite knowledge of the formal target specification language and potential for automation.
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- Towards the formalisation of object-oriented methodologies
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