Reusable software components need well-defined interfaces, rigorously and completely documented features, and a design amenable both to reuse and to formal verification; all these...
The three main assertion-based verification approaches are: Design by Contract (DBC), Extended Static Checking (ESC) and Verified Design by Contract (VDBC). Each approach offers a...
The increasing complexity of products and services encourages more and more companies to form collaborative networks. As these companies are independent organizations there is oft...
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...
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...