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This introductory chapter aims at stating the context and the motivations of the rest of the book. The first section is a brief general reminder of the role of specifications in the software development process. Important concepts such as abstraction, refinement, validation, and verification are introduced informally. The second section gives a characterization of formal specifications, sketches a classification, and discusses the possibilities that they bring for software development. Section 3 is devoted to the use of formal specifications for requirement engineering and validation. Section 4 addresses the notions of refinement and verification. Section 5 discusses what kind of tools can be developed on the basis of formal specifications.
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Gaudel, MC., Bernot, G. (1999). The Role of Formal Specifications. In: Astesiano, E., Kreowski, HJ., Krieg-Brückner, B. (eds) Algebraic Foundations of Systems Specification. IFIP State-of-the-Art Reports. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59851-7_1
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