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In this tutorial I will report our experience with CodeContracts [5], and in particular with its static checker (cccheck/clousot) [6].
CodeContracts are a language-agnostic solution to the specification problem. Preconditions, postconditions and object invariants are with opportune method calls acting as specification markers [4]. The CodeContracts API is part of the core .NET standard. The CodeContracts tools have been downloaded more than 50 000 times, and they are currently used in many projects by professional programmers.
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Logozzo, F. (2012). Our Experience with the CodeContracts Static Checker. In: Joshi, R., Müller, P., Podelski, A. (eds) Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments. VSTTE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27705-4_19
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