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From a Community of Practice to a Body of Knowledge: A Case Study of the Formal Methods Community

2011; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-21437-0_24

1611-3349

Jonathan P. Bowen, Steve Reeves,

Software Testing and Debugging Techniques

A Body of Knowledge (BoK) is an ontology for a particular professional domain. A Community of Practice (CoP) is the collection of people developing such knowledge. In the paper we explore these concepts in the context of the formal methods community in general and the Z notation community, as has been supported by the Z User Group, in particular. The existing SWEBOK Software Engineering Body of Knowledge is considered with respect to formal methods and a high-level model for the possible structure of of a BoK is provided using the Z notation.