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VDMTools: advances in support for formal modeling in VDM

Lookup NU author(s): Professor John Fitzgerald, Dr Peter Larsen

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Abstract

We describe the current status of “VDMTools”, a group of tools supporting the analysis of system models expressed in the formal language of the Vienna Development Method. Three dialects of the language are supported: the ISO standard VDM specification language with support for modular structuring, the extension VDM++ which supports object-oriented structuring and concurrency, and a version extending VDM++ with features for modeling and analysing distributed embedded real-time systems. VDMTools provides extensive static semantics checking, automatic code generation, round-trip mapping to UML class diagrams, documentation support, test coverage analysis and debugging support. The tools’ focus is on supporting the cost-effective development and exploitation of formal models in industrial settings. The paper presents the components of VDMTools and reports experience using them for the development of large models.


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Author(s): Fitzgerald JS, Larsen PG, Sahara S

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 2007

Pages: 11

Print publication date: 01/11/2007

Source Publication Date: November 2007

Report Number: 1057

Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/1057.pdf


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