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COMPSAC
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
A Pragmatic Approach to Formalizing Object-Oriented Modeling and Development
Despite recent developments in formal methods, formal methods have yet to enter the mainstream of software industry. In this paper, we first examine the pragmatic obstacles of ma...
Xiaoping Jia
FMAM
2010
223views Formal Methods» more  FMAM 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Agile Formality: A Mole of Software Engineering Practices
: Members of the agile programming and formal methods communities do not always see eye-to-eye. These two communities often do not talk to or learn from each other. Only recently, ...
Vieri del Bianco, Dragan Stosic, Joseph R. Kiniry
ICFEM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Formal Engineering of XACML Access Control Policies in VDM++
We present a formal, tool-supported approach to the design and maintenance of access control policies expressed in the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML). Our aim is...
Jeremy Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald
ICSM
1996
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using Informal and Formal Techniques for the Reverse Engineering of C Programs
Reverse engineering of program code is the process of constructing a higher level abstraction of an implementation in order to facilitate the understanding of a system that may be...
Gerald C. Gannod, Betty H. C. Cheng
ICFCA
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Lessons Learned in Applying Formal Concept Analysis to Reverse Engineering
A key difficulty in the maintenance and evolution of complex software systems is to recognize and understand the implicit dependencies that define contracts that must be respecte...
Gabriela Arévalo, Stéphane Ducasse, ...