Z User Studio: An integrated support tool for Z specifications

This paper introduces an integrated Z support tool, Z User Studio (ZUS), which was developed by the Formal Methods Research Group of Shanghai University. ZUS is an interactive, single-user tool, running under MS-Windows and NT It supports the production of well-formed Z specifications by providing facilities for building, editing, checking and viewing Z specification documents. It displays the Z constructs and symbols, as they would appear in most popular book on Z ZUS has two modes for editing specifications, text-based editor and graphical editor. The graphical editor provides a hierarchical structure directory for every current Z specification. ZUS implements a computer aided test cases generator (TCG).