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One can use formal approaches either post facto to try to show that a program has desirable properties or one can aim for verified by construction (VxC). The former approach tends to focus on specific properties such as avoiding the dereferencing of null pointers; the latter is more likely to address the question of whether the steps of design satisfy some overall specification. I not only prefer the latter but I have also argued that this is the main way to get formal methods to pay off: there is more mileage in getting a clean architecture than in trying to debug a bad design by retrofitting a proof.
Author(s): Jones CB
Editor(s): Meyer, B. and Woodcock, J.
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments - First IFIP TC 2/WG 2.3 Conference (VSTTE 2005)
Year of Conference: 2008
Pages: 64-69
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69149-5_8
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69149-5_8
Notes: Volume contains revised selected papers and discussions from the conference.
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN: 9783540691471
