Gecko

Gecko is a graphical editor for contract automata.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Installation
• Building
• License

Introduction

The correct functionality of reactive systems, such as control units in cars and airplanes, can be secured using contract automata. Contract automata are a formalism for specifying and verifying software components. As an extension of finite automata, contract automata have states and state transitions that are secured by contracts. Since contract automata for modeled systems become large and their contracts lengthy, a graphical editor that allows for clear manipulation of systems and automata is helpful. This is exactly what Gecko does. Because Gecko understands the formalism of contract automata, the editor is a useful tool for software specification, facilitating the editing of contract automata. Additionally, Gecko adds new abstractions to the model, making the editing of contract automata more manageable for the user.

Installation

To install Gecko, download the latest release from the releases page.

Gecko.jar can be run on any system with Java 21 or later installed.

java -jar Gecko.jar

Building

To build Gecko, clone the repository and run the following commands in the root directory of the repository.

./gradlew build

Gecko can build shadow jars, which are executable jars that include all dependencies. To build a shadow jar, run

./gradlew shadowJar

To execute the compiled jar, execute the following command:

java -jar build/libs/Gecko-1.0-all.jar

License

Gecko is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.