Overview

Object-Oriented Behavioral Specifications encourages builders of complex information systems to accelerate their move to using the approach of a scientific discipline in analysis rather than the approach of a craft. The focus is on understanding customers' needs and on precise specification of understanding gained through analysis. Specifications must bridge any gaps in understanding about business rules among customers, Subject Matter Experts, and `computer people', must inform decisions about reuse of software and systems, and must enable review of semantics over time. Specifications need to describe semantics rather than syntax, and to do that in an abstract and precise manner, in order to create software systems that satisfy business rules. The papers in this book show various ways of designing elegant and clear specifications which are reusable, lead to savings of intellectual effort, time, and money, and which contribute to the reliability of software and systems. Object-Oriented Behavioral Specifications offers a fresh treatment of the object-oriented paradigm by examining the limitations of traditional OO methodologies and by describing the significance of competing trends in OO modeling. The book builds on four years of successful OOPSLA workshops (1991-1995) on behavior semantics. This book deals with precise specifications of `what' is accomplished by the business and `what' is to be done by a system. The book includes descriptions of successful use of abstract and precise specification in industry. It draws on the experience of experts from industrial and academic settings and benefits from international participation. Collective behavior, neglected in some treatment of the OO paradigm, is addressed explicitly in this book. The book does not take `reuse' of specifications or software for granted, but furnishes a foundation for taking as rigorous an approach to reuse decisions as to precise specifications in original developments.

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Author:   Haim Kilov ,  William Harvey
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Volume:   371
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.516kg
ISBN:  

9781475770407

ISBN 10:   1475770405
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   07 March 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Exactness and Clarity in a Component-Based Specification Language.- A Formal Basis for Specifying Object Behaviour.- Information Refraction.- A Pragmatic Approach to Formal Specification.- Anecdotes About Making a Specification Simpler.- Invariants in the Trenches.- Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Specification and Modeling of Collective Behaviors.- An Overview of Larch/C++: Behavioral Specifications for C++ Modules.- Structural Active-Object Systems Fundamentals.- Organizational Culture: An Object-Oriented Framework.- Specifying and Reasoning about Business Rules in a Semantic Network.- Dynamic and Multiple Classification.- Specifying Business Policy Using Agent-Contract Meta-Constructs.- Architectural Specifications: Modeling and Structuring Behavior Through Rules.- The Search for the Linking Invariant: Behavioral Modeling Versus Modeling Behavior.- Automata Describing Object Behavior.- Enterprise Modeling with USE Cases.- Formal Object-Oriented Method — Foom.

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