Towards the integration of ExSpect and S-Cort: a case study

Author

Agoulmine, Moumen ; Pitrel, Jacques

Author_Institution

SLIGOS Corp. R&D Dept., Paris-la-Defense, France

fYear

1992

fDate

15-18 Jun 1992

Firstpage

574

Lastpage

584

Abstract

PROOFS project aims to develop a method for heterogeneous distributed applications (HDA) design, including formal techniques of specification. The skeleton of the PROOFS method is based on the use of the S-Cort method developed by SLIGOS. Nevertheless some additional developments of this method are required in order to satisfy the initial objectives of PROOFS project. This article deals with the insertion of a functional architecture specification in the current HDA design process described by S-Cort. To introduce such an architecture, the authors propose the use of ExSpect formalism and tool. This solution is presented through a case study (a teleshopping application) and as a result of this experimentation, some ExSpect formalism improvements are proposed in order to increase the suitability of this solution

Keywords

distributed processing; formal specification; software engineering; software tools; ExSpect; PROOFS method; S-Cort method; SLIGOS; functional architecture specification; heterogeneous distributed applications; software tools; specification; system design; teleshopping; Authorization; Computer aided software engineering; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Credit cards; Maintenance; Organizing; Process design; Research and development; Skeleton;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Integration, 1992. ICSI '92., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Morristown, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2697-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSI.1992.217305

Filename

217305