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Generating Python Code From Object-Z Specifications
Object-Z is an object-oriented specification language which extends the Z
language with classes, objects, inheritance and polymorphism that can be used
to represent the specification of a complex system as collections of objects.
There are a number of existing works that mapped Object-Z to C++ and Java
programming languages. Since Python and Object-Z share many similarities, both
are object-oriented paradigm, support set theory and predicate calculus
moreover, Python is a functional programming language which is naturally closer
to formal specifications, we propose a mapping from Object-Z specifications to
Python code that covers some Object-Z constructs and express its specifications
in Python to validate these specifications. The validations are used in the
mapping covered preconditions, post-conditions, and invariants that are built
using lambda function and Python's decorator. This work has found Python is an
excellent language for developing libraries to map Object-Z specifications to
Python.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure