LOTOSphere: Software Development with LOTOS / Edition 1

by Tommaso Bolognesi, Jeroen van de Lagemaat, Chris Vissers

Overview

LOTOS (Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification) became an international standard in 1989, although application of preliminary versions of the language to communication services and prools of the ISO/OSI family dates back to 1984. This history of the use of LOTOS made it apparent that more advantages than the pure production of standard reference documents were to be expected from the use of such formal description techniques.
LOTOSphere: Software Development with LOTOS describes in depth a five year project that moved LOTOS out of the ISO tower into software engineering practice. LOTOS became a vehicle for efficient, yet formally based industrial software specification, design, verification, implementation and testing.
LOTOSphere: Software Development with LOTOS is divided into six parts. The first introduces the reader to LOTOS and the project LOTOSphere. The five remaining each treat an important part of the software development life cycle using LOTOS. This is the first book to give a comprehensive treatment of the use of these formal description techniques in a software engineering environment. It will thus be a valuable reference for researchers and software developers and can also be used as a text for an advanced course on the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792395294
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/31/1995
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Preface. Part I: Introduction and Overview. 1. LOTOSphere, an Attempt towards a Design Culture; C.A. Vissers, L. Ferreira Pires, J. van de Lagemaat. 2. The LOTOSphere Design Methodology; J. Quemada, A. Azcorra, S. Pavón. 3. Design and Implementation Strategies; J. Schot, L. Ferreira Pires. 4. Getting to Use the LOTOSphere Integrated Tool Environment (LITE); J.A. Mañas. 5. LOTOS Industrial Applications. 6. Applying LOTOS to OSI Application Layer Prools; R.E. Booth. Part II: Specification and Transformation. 7. LOTOS Specification Style for OSI; K.J. Turner, M. van Sinderen. 8. Correctness Preserving Transformations for the Early Phases of Software Development; T. Bolognesi, D. De Frutos, R. Langerak, D. Latella. 9. Correctness Preserving Transformations for the Late Phases of Software Development; A. Fantechi, B. Mekhanet, E. Najm, P. Cunha, J. Queiroz. 10. A Case Study on Prool Design; J.-P. Courtiat, D.-E. Saïdouni. Part II: Analysis. 11. Executing LOTOS Specifications: the SMILE Tool; H. Eertink. 12. A Pragmatic Approach to Verification, Validation and Compilation; T. Miguel, A. Azcorra, J. Quemada, J.A. Mañas. 13. An Exercise in Prool Verification; S. Gnesi, E. Madelaine, G. Ristori. 14. A Tool for Checking ADT Completeness and Consistency; D. Wolz. 15. Deriving Tests from LOTOS Specifications; T. Bolognesi, D. De Frutos, R. Langerak, D. Latella. Part IV: Implementation. 16. The COLOS Compiler; K. Warkentyne, E. Dubuis.17. TP Prool from Specification to Implementation; I. Widya, G.-J. van der Heijden, F. Juillot. 18. Realization of CCR in C; V. Jones. 19. ALTO: an Interactive Transformation Tool for LOTOS and LOTOMATION; E. Najm, A. Serhrouchni, A. Lakas, E. Madelaine, R. de Simone. Part V: Graphical LOTOS. 20. G-LOTOS: a Graphical Language for Concurrent Systems; T. Bolognesi, E. Najm, P.A.J. Tilanus. 21. GLOW 3.0 — a Graphical LOTOS Browser; T. Bolognesi, M. Caneve, E. Salvatori. Part VI: LOTOS Enhancements. 22. Enhancements of LOTOS; E. Brinksma, G. Leih. 23. Data Specifications in Modular LOTOS; R. Roth, J. de Meer, S. Storp. Index.

Editorial Reviews

LOTOS (Language of Temporal Ordering Specification) became an international standard in 1989, although applications of preliminary versions of the language to communication services and protocols of the ISO/OSI family date back to 1984. This volume describes in depth a five year project that moved LOTOS out of the ISO palace into software engineering practice, where it became a vehicle for efficient, yet formally based industrial software specification, design, verification, implementation, and testing. The volume is divided into six parts. The first introduces LOTOS and the project LOTOSphere. The five remaining each treat an important part of the software development life cycle. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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