Model variables: Cleanly supporting abstraction in design by contract

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 583-599

  Cheon, Yoonsik ^a   Leavens, Gary ^b   Sitaraman, Murali ^c   Edwards, Stephen ^d  

^a University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

^c AMRL   (United States)

^d State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Assertions; Design by contract; Java language; Jml language; Model variables; Runtime assertion checking; Specifications

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS;

ASSERTIONS; DESIGN BY CONTRACT; JML LANGAUGES; MODEL VARIABLES; RUNTIME ASSERTION CHECKING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 18744389496     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.649     Document Type: Article

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