Design constraints express essential behavioural properties of a software system. Two key elements of a scheme for enforcing design constraints are presented: a logic for describin...
: In this paper a run-time model is proposed. The run-time model enforces integrity constraints for attributes that are derived from composition and inheritance hierarchies. The ru...
Belal Zaqaibeh, Hamidah Ibrahim, Ali Mamat, Md Nas...
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
This paper presents a global constraint that enforces rules written in a language based on arithmetic and first-order logic to hold among a set of objects. In a first step, the rul...
The design and implementation of a software system is often governed by a variety of coding conventions, design patterns, architectural guidelines, design rules, and other so-call...
Johan Brichau, Andy Kellens, Sergio Castro, Theo D...