The Unit-B Method -- Refinement Guided by Progress Concerns
Software Engineering
2020-04-01 v2 Logic in Computer Science
Systems and Control
Systems and Control
Abstract
We present Unit-B, a formal method inspired by Event-B and UNITY. Unit-B aims at the stepwise design of software systems satisfying safety and liveness properties. The method features the novel notion of coarse and fine schedules, a generalisation of weak and strong fairness for specifying events' scheduling assumptions. Based on events schedules, we propose proof rules to reason about progress properties and a refinement order preserving both liveness and safety properties. We illustrate our approach by an example to show that systems development can be driven by not only safety but also liveness requirements.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1810.10143,
title = {The Unit-B Method -- Refinement Guided by Progress Concerns},
author = {Simon Hudon and Thai Son Hoang and Jonathan S. Ostroff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10143},
year = {2020}
}