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OCL and Graph-Transformations – A Symbiotic Alliance to Alleviate the Frame Problem

Baar, Thomas  
2005
Satellite Events at the MoDELS 2005 Conference. MODELS 2005
MoDELS'05 Conference Workshop on Tool Support for OCL and Related Formalisms - Needs and Trends

Many popular methodologies are influenced by Design by Contract. They recommend to specify the intended behavior of operations in an early phase of the software development life cycle. In practice, software developers use most often natural language to describe how the state of the system is supposed to change when the operation is executed. Formal contract specification languages are still rarely used because their semantics often mismatch the needs of software developers. Restrictive specification languages usually suffer from the ”frame problem”: It is hard to express which parts of the system state should remain unaffected when the specified operation is executed. Constructive specification languages, instead, suffer from the tendency to make specifications deterministic. This paper investigates how a combination of OCL and graph transformations can overcome the frame problem and can make constructive specifications less deterministic. Our new contract specification language is considerably more expressive than both pure OCL and pure graph transformations

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/11663430_3
Author(s)
Baar, Thomas  
Date Issued

2005

Published in
Satellite Events at the MoDELS 2005 Conference. MODELS 2005
Series title/Series vol.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 3844

Start page

20

End page

31

Subjects

Design by Contract

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Behavior Specification

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Graph Grammars

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OCL

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QVT

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EPFL Technical Report LGL-REPORT-2005-001

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
MoDELS'05 Conference Workshop on Tool Support for OCL and Related Formalisms - Needs and Trends

Montego Bay, Jamaica

October 4, 2005

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October 17, 2005
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