The Design and Implementation of a Documentation Generator for the PRISM Language

Abstract

PRISM is a tool for formal modelling and analysis of systems which exhibit random or probabilistic behaviour. Having developed a documentation generator for its language, we explain the design and the corresponding implementation of our extension to PRISM. The paper consists of a study of the unobtrusive enhancements to the parser of the original code base in order to construct software analogous to Javadoc. On the basis of our findings, one could follow the same pattern to build similar tools for other specification or programming languages. Furthermore, we describe the resulting software, which can facilitate the research within the field of the dependability of computer systems.