{"title":"Use of a specification construction and animation tool to teach formal methods","authors":"I. Morrey, J. Siddiqi, G. Buckberry, R. Hibberd","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1993.404236","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ZAL (Z Animation in LISP) is a package which allows a Z specification to be incrementally designed and validated in an interactive environment built on Common LISP. A Z specification is transformed into an equivalent ZAL program which can be executed in order to demonstrate the functionality of the intended implementation. ZED is a full screen editor and syntax analyser for Z. Using these two tools as an integrated package encourages and facilitates an exploratory approach to formal specification which reflects the way in which many users of Z (particularly beginners) prefer to approach the specification task. The package has also been used to support the teaching of students following courses in discrete mathematics, formal specification and software development.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":375808,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1993 IEEE 17th International Computer Software and Applications Conference COMPSAC '93","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of 1993 IEEE 17th International Computer Software and Applications Conference COMPSAC '93","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1993.404236","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ZAL (Z Animation in LISP) is a package which allows a Z specification to be incrementally designed and validated in an interactive environment built on Common LISP. A Z specification is transformed into an equivalent ZAL program which can be executed in order to demonstrate the functionality of the intended implementation. ZED is a full screen editor and syntax analyser for Z. Using these two tools as an integrated package encourages and facilitates an exploratory approach to formal specification which reflects the way in which many users of Z (particularly beginners) prefer to approach the specification task. The package has also been used to support the teaching of students following courses in discrete mathematics, formal specification and software development.<>
ZAL (LISP中的Z动画)是一个包，它允许在基于Common LISP构建的交互式环境中增量地设计和验证Z规范。Z规范被转换为等价的ZAL程序，可以执行该程序以演示预期实现的功能。ZED是Z的全屏编辑器和语法分析器。使用这两个工具作为一个集成的包鼓励并促进了对正式规范的探索方法，这反映了许多Z用户(特别是初学者)更喜欢处理规范任务的方式。该软件包还被用于支持学生在离散数学，正式规范和软件开发课程的教学。
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