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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. The correctness of a program can only be judged with respect to a specification; clarifying and recording the assumptions about the context in which a program is to be used is a crucial part of such a specification. Programs that either employ concurrent threads or execute concurrently in a changing environment experience interference; recording assumptions about interference needs something more expressive than pre/post condition specifications. This chapter evaluates the effectiveness of rely-guarantee conditions for documenting tolerable and induced interference. An important message is that it is sometimes easier and clearer to begin by studying an overall system rather than seeking to describe details of low-level internal devices (which might be viewed as “implementation patterns”).
Author(s): Jones CB
Editor(s): Simon Foster, Augusto Sampaio
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: The Application of Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Jim Woodcock on the Occasion of His Retirement
Year: 2024
Volume: 14900
Pages: 43-70
Print publication date: 13/08/2024
Online publication date: 01/09/2024
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer
Place Published: Cham
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67114-2_3
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-67114-2_3
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9783031671135
