In the Design By Contract (DBC) approach, programmers specify methods with pre and postconditions (also called contracts). Earlier work added protocols to the DBC approach to desc...
Behavioral software contracts express properties concerning the flow of values across component (modules, classes, etc) interfaces. These properties are often beyond the reach of ...
The Visual Contract Workbench is a tool that supports model-driven development of software systems by lifting the Design by Contract idea, which is usually used at the code level,...
First-class classes add expressive power to class-based object-oriented languages. Most importantly, programmers ract over common scenarios with first-class classes. When it comes...
Design by contract is a practical methodology for developing code together with its specification. The contract consists of class invariants and method preand postconditions. As ...
Maayan Goldstein, Yishai A. Feldman, Shmuel S. Tys...