The Spec# programming system is a new attempt at a more cost effective way to develop
and maintain high-quality software. This paper describes the goals and architecture of the …

Behavioral interface specification languages provide formal code-level annotations, such as
preconditions, postconditions, invariants, and assertions that allow programmers to express …

Methods and computer-readable media for maintaining transactional link-level consistency
between a database and a file system. A file system change is logged in a record of a …

Specifications that are used in detailed design and in the documentation of existing code are
primarily written and read by programmers. However, most formal specification languages …

Abstract The Java Modeling Language (JML) is a formal behavioral interface specification
language (BISL) for Java. JML has many advances including specification-only declarations …

Typescript extends JavaScript with optional type annotations that are, by design, unsound
and, that the Typescript compiler discards as it emits code. This design point preserves …

Design by Contract is a lightweight technique for embedding elements of formal
specification (such as invariants, pre and postconditions) into an object-oriented design …

Assertion-based contracts provide a powerful mechanism for stating invariants at module
boundaries and for enforcing them uniformly. In 2002, Findler and Felleisen showed how to …

" Solving the modeling problems of object-oriented languages by composing multiple
aspects using composition filters', M Aksit, B Tekinerdogan, OOPSLA AOP'98 workshop …

Component-based software manufacturing has the potential to bring division-of-labor
benefits to the world of software engineering. In order to make a market of software …