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The Event-B method, and its tools, provide a way to formally model systems; Tasking Event-B is an extension facilitating code generation. We have recently begun to explore how we can configure the code generator, for deployment on different target systems. In this paper, we describe how templates can be used to avoid hard-coding ‘boilerplate’ code, and how to merge this with code generated from the formal model. We have developed a lightweight approach, where tags (i.e. tagged mark-up) can be placed in source templates. The template-processors we introduce may be of use to other plug-in developers wishing to merge a ‘source’ text file with some generated output.
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Edmunds, A. (2014). Templates for Event-B Code Generation. In: Ait Ameur, Y., Schewe, KD. (eds) Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z. ABZ 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43652-3_25
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