Another Tool for Structural Operational Semantics Visualization of Simple Imperative Language

Abstract

Teaching formal methods, especially semantics of programming languages is an important aspect of theoretical informatics. The learning process often includes a lot of mathematics and learning different notations, which appears to be very difficult for students. In this paper, we present a new interactive tool for visualization of the structural operational semantics of a simple imperative program. We demonstrate our approach on the example of a simple program, where we visualize the inference process of small steps semantic method.