Enhancing the pre- and postcondition technique for more expressive specifications

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

Volumn 1709, Issue , 1999, Pages 1087-1106

  Leavens, Gary T ^a   Baker, Albert L ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Debugging; Expressiveness; History constraint; Larch; Liberal specification; Redundancy; Specification language design

Indexed keywords

C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER DEBUGGING; FORMAL METHODS; REDUNDANCY; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES;

BEHAVIORAL INTERFACES; EFFECTIVE TOOL; EXPRESSIVENESS; LARCH; OBJECT ORIENTED; PRE- AND POSTCONDITION; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE DESIGN;

SPECIFICATIONS;

EID: 84949524641     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48118-4_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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