{"title":"A user friendly specification environment for FDT and its application to LOTOS","authors":"N. Shiratori, E. Lee","doi":"10.1109/PCCC.1992.200523","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The authors propose a new specification methodology and environment named the model based programming (MBP) environment. The objective of MBP is to design a user-friendly specification environment for formal description techniques (FDTs) such as LOTOS and SDL. MBP consists of the following tools: (1) mechanism for requirement acquisition, (2) tutor, (3) formal specification description model and (4) translator to FDTs. (1) acquires user requirements based on user-friendly tools, (2) gives information to users about MBP and FDTs, (3) represents a user requirement as a model based on the FDT being used, and (4) translates the user requirement represented in (3) to a FDT specification. By using MBP, a nonexpert user who only has a basic knowledge about the design concepts and the outline of each FDT can easily describe the FDT specification. MBP-1 has been implemented as a pilot system.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":250212,"journal":{"name":"Eleventh Annual International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communication [1992 Conference Proceedings]","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1992-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Eleventh Annual International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communication [1992 Conference Proceedings]","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PCCC.1992.200523","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The authors propose a new specification methodology and environment named the model based programming (MBP) environment. The objective of MBP is to design a user-friendly specification environment for formal description techniques (FDTs) such as LOTOS and SDL. MBP consists of the following tools: (1) mechanism for requirement acquisition, (2) tutor, (3) formal specification description model and (4) translator to FDTs. (1) acquires user requirements based on user-friendly tools, (2) gives information to users about MBP and FDTs, (3) represents a user requirement as a model based on the FDT being used, and (4) translates the user requirement represented in (3) to a FDT specification. By using MBP, a nonexpert user who only has a basic knowledge about the design concepts and the outline of each FDT can easily describe the FDT specification. MBP-1 has been implemented as a pilot system.<>