Title :
Designing multiple types of spatial and non spatial databases integration model using formal specification approach
Author :
Man, Mustafa ; Rahim, Mohd Shafry Mohd ; Jusoh, Julaily Aida ; Zakaria, Mohammad Zaidi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
Abstract :
Most developer prefers not to use formal specification (FS) approach in designing a database system. In recent years, these approaches have been seen as rivals, a new consensus has been developed in which software developers are agreed it as complementary. Theoretically this approach can reduce the overall development time, use to provide an unambiguous and precise supplement to natural language descriptions. Focus to this point, it can be rigorously validated and verified leading to the early detection of specification errors or debugs during software development process. Correcting errors at the early development stage is cheaper than modifying a delivered system. A FS could be verified in order to explore the consequences of this specification and potentially find mistakes. After it was done, we have greater confidence that the testing of such system against the actual user requirement specification. This paper discusses the FS of spatial and non spatial Information Databases Integration (SIDIF) model as a case study.
Keywords :
database management systems; formal specification; program debugging; SIDIF model; debugs; formal specification; natural language description; nonspatial information database integration model; software development process; specification error; Formal specifications; Marine animals; Programming; Software; Spatial databases; Testing; Formal Specification; SIDIF Model; Software Requirements; Z Specification Language;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering (MySEC), 2011 5th Malaysian Conference in
Conference_Location :
Johor Bahru
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1530-3
DOI :
10.1109/MySEC.2011.6140637