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Structured Analysis and System Specification Yourdon, New York, 7978 pp.7-7and37-44 M …

Recent advances in software specification methods, model checking, and theorem proving
have generated new tools for the use of formal methods in both industry and academia. Yet …

Formal specifications have been a focus of software engineering research for many years
and have been applied in a wide variety of settings. Their industrial use is still limited but has …

Abstract Specification is the software life-cycle phase concerned with precise definition of
the tasks to be performed by the system. Although software engineering textbooks …

Specifications can be written in languages which have formal semantics. Their very
formality, and the similarities with some aspects of implementation languages, invites the …

The formulation and analysis of a design specification is almost always of more utility than
the verification of the consistency of a program with its specification. Good specification tools …

As its title promises, this book provides foundations for software specification and formal
software development from the perspective of work on algebraic specification. It …

The last decade has seen a large increase in the use of 'structured'methods of software
development. They grew out of their predecessors, which consisted of a toolkit of techniques …

Building software often seems harder than it ought to be. It takes longer than expected, the
software's functionality and performance are not as wonderful as hoped, and the software is …

Software development relies on formal specification standards that are expressed in a
language whose vocabulary, syntax and semantics are formally defined and which has a …