Modern programs make extensive use of reusable software libraries. For example, a study of a number of large Java applications shows that between 17% and 30% of the classes in tho...
Johannes Henkel, Christoph Reichenbach, Amer Diwan
Despite their benefits, programmers rarely use formal specifications, because they are difficult to write and they require an up front investment in time. To address these issues,...
This paper presents a method of component testing based on algebraic specifications. An algorithm for generating checkable test cases is proposed. A prototype testing tool called ...
Analysis and design by contract allows the definition of a formal agreement between a class and its clients, expressing each party’s rights and obligations. Contracts written in ...
Wojciech J. Dzidek, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche
Java is an attractive environment for writing portable message passing parallel programs. Considerable work in message passing interface bindings for the C and Fortran languages h...