Come, Let's Play - Harel, David

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Résumé :
The play-in/play-out method and tool presented in this book is a powerful new approach to software and systems engineering and modeling based on formal methods and program semantics. The life sequence charts (LSC) as the language of this approach generalize the message sequence charts of UML and are presented in this book for the first time in a coherent and systematic way. The method described is fascinating from the scientific point of view. The associated play-engine tool available from the authors' Web site has broad appeal to professionals in software engineering, systems engineering, and modeling and simulation....

Biographie:
David Harel has been at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel since 1980. He was Department Head from 1989 to 1995, and was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science between 1998 and 2004. He was also co-founder of I-Logix, Inc. He received his PhD from MIT in 1978, and has spent time at IBM Yorktown Heights, and sabbaticals at Carnegie-Mellon University, Cornell University, and the University of Edinburgh. In the past he worked mainly in theoretical computer science (logic, computability, automata, database theory), and he now works mainly on software and systems engineering and on modeling biological systems. He is the inventor of statecharts and co-inventor of live sequence charts, and co-designed Statemate, Rhapsody, the Play-Engine and PlayGo. Among his awards are the ACM Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1992), the Israel Prize (2004), the ACM Software System Award (2007), the Emet Prize (2010), and three honorary degrees. He is a Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE and the AAAS, and a member of the Academia Europaea and the Israel Academy of Sciences. ? Yishai Feldman received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1986.? He was a faculty member at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. He is now at the IBM Research lab in Haifa, Israel, where he leads research on tools for program understanding and transformation....

Sommaire:
I. Prelude.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Setting the Stage.- 3. An Example-Driven Overview.- 4. The Model: Object Systems.- II. Foundations.- 5. The Language: Live Sequence Charts (LSCs).- 6. The Tool: The Play-Engine.- III. Basic Behavior.- 7. Variables and Symbolic Messages.- 8. Assignments and Implemented Functions.- 9. Conditions.- 10. Branching and Subcharts.- IV. Advanced Behavior: Multiple Charts.- 11. Executing Multiple Charts.- 12. Testing with Existential Charts.- V. Advanced Behavior: Richer Constructs.- Loops.- Transition to Design.- Classes and Symbolic Instances.- Time and Real-Time Systems.- Forbidden Elements.- VI Enhancing the Play-Engine.- Smart Play-Out (with H. Kugler).- Inside and Outside the Play-Engine.- A Play-Engine Aware GUI Editor.- Future Research Directions.- VII Appendices.- A. Formal Semantics of LSCs.- A.1 System Model and Events.- A.2 LSC Specification.- A.3 Operational Semantics.- B. XML Description of a GUI Application.- C. The Play-Engine Interface.- C.1 Visual Basic Code.- D. The GUI Application Interface.- D.1 Visual Basic Code.- E. The Structure of a (Recorded) Run.- References.