Abstract
In the quest for the highest possible abstraction of software systems, Runnable Knowledge has been proposed for MDA. But in order to be useful in practice as a system design, it must be amenable to verification. This work precisely describes the necessary steps by which ROM – a Runnable Ontology Model tool – concurrently generates a running model and its respective test script from the designed Runnable Knowledge, allowing verification that the model is self-consistent. The novel implementation idea is to use ready-made mock object libraries to efficiently obtain the code for a running model. Detailed examples are provided to illustrate each of the ROM generation steps.
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Exman, I., Yagel, R. (2013). ROM: An Approach to Self-consistency Verification of a Runnable Ontology Model. In: Fred, A., Dietz, J.L.G., Liu, K., Filipe, J. (eds) Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 415. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54105-6_18
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