Borba, P., Sampaio, A., Cavalcanti, A. and Cornelio, M. (2004) Algebraic reasoning for object-oriented programming. Science of Computer Programming, 52 (1-3). pp. 53-100. ISSN 0167-6423Full text not available from this repository.
We present algebraic laws for a language similar to a subset of sequential Java that includes inheritance, recursive classes, dynamic binding, access control, type tests and casts, assignment, but no sharing. These laws are proved sound with respect to a weakest precondition semantics. We also show that they are complete in the sense that they are sufficient to reduce an arbitrary program to a normal form substantially close to an imperative program; the remaining object-oriented constructs could be further eliminated if our language had recursive records. This suggests that our laws are expressive enough to formally derive behaviour preserving program transformations; we illustrate that through the derivation of provably-correct refactorings.
|Institution:||The University of York|
|Academic Units:||The University of York > Computer Science (York)|
|Depositing User:||York RAE Import|
|Date Deposited:||12 Feb 2009 17:04|
|Last Modified:||12 Feb 2009 17:04|
|Publisher:||Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam|