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S. J. Goldsack
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Department of Computing, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College of Science, London, UK
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S. J. H. Kent
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Department of Computing, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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Introduction
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Pages 3-16
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Pages 17-29
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Formal Methods in Object Technology
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Pages 33-46
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Pages 47-59
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Object Technology in Formal Methods
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Pages 63-85
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Pages 86-112
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Pages 113-157
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Pages 158-179
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Formal Foundations of Object Technology
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Front Matter
Pages 181-181
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Pages 183-204
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Pages 205-226
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Pages 227-261
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Pages 262-286
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Pages 287-301
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Pages 302-316
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Pages 317-335
About this book
Rationale Software engineering aims to develop software by using approaches which en able large and complex program suites to be developed in a systematic way. However, it is well known that it is difficult to obtain the level of assurance of correctness required for safety critical software using old fashioned program ming techniques. The level of safety required becomes particularly high in software which is to function without a break for long periods of time, since the software cannot be restarted and errors can accumulate. Consequently programming for mission critical systems, for example, needs to address the requirements of correctness with particular care. In the search for techniques for making software cheaper and more reliable, two important but largely independent influences have been visible in recent years. These are: • Object Technology • Formal Methods First, it has become evident that objects are, and will remain an important concept in software. Experimental languages of the 1970's introduced various concepts of package, cluster, module, etc. giving concrete expression to the importance of modularity and encapsulation, the construction of software com ponents hiding their state representations and algorithmic mechanisms from users, exporting only those features (mainly the procedure calling mechanisms) which were needed in order to use the objects. This gives the software com ponents a level of abstraction, separating the view of what a module does for the system from the details of how it does them.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Computing, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College of Science, London, UK
S. J. Goldsack
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Department of Computing, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
S. J. H. Kent