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- Presents formal modelling techniques in a context that will be familiar to practitioners and students with no prior experience of formalism, namely object-oriented design
- Advocates formal modelling as an enhancement to common design practice
- The designer can move freely and consistently between the class structure view (using UML class diagrams) and the functional view (using VDM++)
- Makes extensive use of case studies and examples in industry
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Models and Software Development
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Modelling Object-oriented Systems in VDM++
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Modelling in Practice: Three Case Studies
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From Models to Code
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Back Matter
About this book
Object-oriented design methods are commonplace in computing systems development, but are often dismissed as 'boxes & arrows'. If systems developers are to gain full advantage from such methods, they should be able to achieve designs that are not merely the subject of heated argument, but can be improved by careful, rigorous & machine-supported analysis.
This book describes an object-oriented design approach that combines the benefits of abstract modelling with the analytic power of formal methods, to give designs that can be rigorously validated & assured with automated support.
Aimed at software architects, designers & developers as well as computer scientists, no prior knowledge of formal methods is assumed. The elements of functional modelling are introduced using numerous examples & exercises, industrial case studies & experience reports. Industry-strength tools support the text. Go to www.vdmbook.com to download free-of-charge VDMTools Lite, which gives the possibility to try out examples from the book
Authors and Affiliations
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Centre for Software Reliability, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
John Fitzgerald
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Systematic Software Engineering A/S, Denmark
Peter Gorm Larsen
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Systematic Software Engineering A/S, USA
Paul Mukherjee
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West Consulting B.V., The Netherlands
Nico Plat
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Chess Information Technology B.V., The Netherlands
Marcel Verhoef
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Radbound University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Marcel Verhoef
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Validated Designs for Object-oriented Systems
Authors: John Fitzgerald, Peter Gorm Larsen, Paul Mukherjee, Nico Plat, Marcel Verhoef
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138800
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-881-7Published: 03 February 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84996-943-7Published: 13 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-107-5Published: 25 November 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 404
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations
Topics: Programming Techniques, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science