Emulation Software for Executable Specifications
S. Gestegård
Master's Thesis, LU-CS-EX:99-6, Dept. of Computer Science, Lund Institute
of Technology, Lund, Sweden. April 1999.
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Abstract
Writing of specifications is a very important part of product development,
and their correctness and consistency is essential for the continuing design
process. The current method of writing specifications using natural language
and different kinds of informal diagrams makes it hard to ensure the specifications'
correctness, completeness and consistency. The goal of this project is
to create a computer-aided environment that can help the writer of specifications
to overcome these difficulties. By writing the specification in a formal
language it is possible to execute the specification, allowing the user
to experiment with the basic functionality of the application and to get
direct feedback on how a change in the specification will affect the behavior
of the application. In this thesis, we focus on studying specification
of applications for interactive devices communicating via a Bluetooth radio
link. We have created a formal specification language for describing the
functionality of such devices as well as an interpreting emulator to execute
specifications written in this language.