Integration of software analysis and design methods with formal description techniques

Abstract

This paper discusses a technique which shows how to integrate formal description techniques (FDTs) with specification & design methods such as OMT so that we can have new methods to support writing formal specifications. The integration mechanism is based on transformation rules of specification document produced following methods into the descriptions written in FDTs. The transformation rules specify the correspondences on two meta models; the method meta models and the FDT meta model, and are described as graph rewriting rules. As an example, we pick up OMT as a method and LOTOS as a FDT and define the transformation rule on their meta models.