Abstract
The lack of existing solutions makes it really hard to understand formal specification languages since the application domain for representations is useful for the purpose of carrying out certain software engineering operations such as slicing and the computation of program metrics. A Z specification dependence graph is presented in this letter. It draws on the strengths of a range of earlier works and adapts them, if necessary, to the Z language.
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Communication author: Wu Fangjun, born in 1977, female, Ph.D. Center of Modern Education at Yichun University, Yichun 336000, China.
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Wu, F., Yi, T. The Z specification dependence graph. J. of Electron.(China) 22, 201–204 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02688149
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02688149