Improving JML: For a safer and more effective language

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2805, Issue , 2003, Pages 440-461

  Chalin, Patrice ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arbitrary precision numeric types; Assertion based languages; Behavioral interface specification languages; Formal methods; Java Modeling Language; JML; Specification language design and semantics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERRORS; FORMAL METHODS; FORMAL SPECIFICATION; MODELING LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SMART CARDS; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS;

ARBITRARY PRECISION; BEHAVIORAL INTERFACES; JAVA MODELING LANGUAGE; JML; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE DESIGN;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 34250182650     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45236-2_25     Document Type: Article

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