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Automatic Generation of Graphical User Interfaces From VDM++ Specifications

Authors:
Carlos Nunes
Ana Paiva

Keywords: Formal Methods; Graphical User Interfaces; Vienna Development Method; Automatic Code Generation

Abstract:
The Vienna Development Method is supported by several tools. These tools allow generating Java code from a VDM++ specification but do not generate a graphical user interface (GUI). This paper describes a generic approach and tool to automatically generate a GUI in Java from a VDM++ specification. The generated GUI calls methods of the VDM++ specification, which allows testing the specification itself in order to increase confidence that it is an accurate description of the intended behaviour. This GUI may evolve to interact with the already supported generation code in Java (for the API) in order to obtain a complete application from a VDM++ specification based on a fully automatic code generation process.

Pages: 399 to 404

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-165-6

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011