Aziz, Benjamin and Arenas, Alvaro and Bicarregui, Juan and Ponsard, Christophe and Massonet, Philippe (2009) From Goal-Oriented Requirements to Event-B Specifications. In: First Nasa Formal Method Symposium, April 6 - 8, 2009 , Moffett Field, California . (In Press)
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Abstract
In goal-oriented requirements engineering methodologies, goals are structured into refinement trees from high-level system-wide goals down to fine-grained requirements assigned to specific software/ hardware/human agents that can realise them. Functional goals assigned to software agents need to be operationalised into specification of services that the agent should provide to realise those requirements. In this paper, we propose an approach for operationalising requirements into specifications expressed in the Event-B formalism. Our approach has the benefit of aiding software designers by bridging the gap between declarative requirements and operational system specifications in a rigorous manner, enabling powerful correctness proofs and allowing further refinements down to the implementation level. Our solution is based on verifying that a consistent Event-B machine exhibits properties corresponding to requirements.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Subjects: | Event-B > Event-B Theory Methodology > Requirements and evolution Tool developments > Model construction |
ID Code: | 91 |
Deposited By: | Ir Christophe Ponsard |
Deposited On: | 20 Apr 2009 10:35 |
Last Modified: | 19 Apr 2010 16:05 |
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