Runtime verification of .NET contracts

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-208

  Barnett, Mike ^a   Schulte, Wolfram ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MULTI-THREADED COMPONENTS;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 0038182886     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-1212(02)00041-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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