Towards operational natural language [article]

Alexandr Naumchev
2017 arXiv   pre-print
The multiplicity of software projects' stakeholders and activities leads to the multiplicity of software specification views and thus creates the need to establish mutual consistency between them. The process of establishing such consistency is error-prone and requires adequate tool support. The present article introduces specogramming - an approach that treats a modern object-oriented integrated development environment as a word processor. The approach turns the process of documenting initial
more » ... pecifications into a simplified form of programming and turns structured-natural-language specifications into runnable programs that yield multiple consistent-by-construction views, one of which is structured natural language.
arXiv:1711.06518v1 fatcat:vz6y3jhih5gvposld3n2l4eu7q