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Vienna Development Method

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Concise Guide to Formal Methods

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This chapter presents the Vienna Development Method, which is one of the older formal specification languages. It was developed at the IBM laboratory in Vienna as a method to specify the semantics of the PL/1 programming language, and it evolved into a formal specification language with a rigorous software development method with rules to verify the steps of development. The rules enable the executable specification, i.e. the detailed code, to be obtained from the initial specification via refinement steps, such that the executable code is a valid implementation of the formal specification.

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Notes

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    Meta IV was a pun on metaphor.

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    The IFAD Toolbox has been renamed to VDMTools (as IFAD sold the VDM Tools to CSK in Japan).

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    f † g is the VDM notation for function override. The notation f  ⊕  g is employed in Z .

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    The problem with 3-valued logic is that they are less intuitive than classical 2-valued logic.

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    Gerard O’Regan

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O’Regan, G. (2017). Vienna Development Method. In: Concise Guide to Formal Methods. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64021-1_9

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