Achieving Qualities During the Development of LOTOS Specifications
Résumé
The LOTOS language is useful for the specification of services and communication protocols. Main recognised qualities of such specifications are simplicity, readability, provability, modularity (extensionability, rearrangeability) or composability. In this paper, we identify and formalise some of the qualities which arise ``during'' the development of LOTOS specifications. Some other qualities cannot be formally defined and must be obtained by specific methods. Formalised qualities can be achieved through development operators which consist of mechanisms that operate on intermediate states of a development.
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