Overview
- Presents the state of the art in quality software through reuse and integration
- Includes the latest research on formal methods integration
- Gathers the best papers from the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Formal Methods Integration—the IEEE FMi 2016, held in Pittsburgh, USA, July 28–30 2016
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC, volume 561)
Included in the following conference series:
- FMI: Workshop on Formal Methods Integration
- IRI 2016: International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration
Conference proceedings info: FMI 2016, IRI 2016 2016.
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Table of contents (13 papers)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Quality Software Through Reuse and Integration
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About this book
This book presents 13 high-quality research articles that provide long sought-after answers to questions concerning various aspects of reuse and integration. Its contents lead to the inescapable conclusion that software, hardware, and design productivity – including quality attributes – is not bounded. It combines the best of theory and practice and contains recipes for increasing the output of our productivity sectors.
The idea of improving software quality through reuse is not new. After all, if software works and is needed, why not simply reuse it? What is new and evolving, however, is the idea of relative validation through testing and reuse, and the abstraction of code into frameworks for instantiation and reuse. Literal code can be abstracted. These abstractions can in turn yield similar codes, which serve to verify their patterns. There is a taxonomy of representations from the lowest-level literal codes to their highest-level natural language descriptions. As a result,product quality is improved in proportion to the degree of reuse at all levels of abstraction. Any software that is, in theory, complex enough to allow for self-reference, cannot be certified as being absolutely valid. The best that can be attained is a relative validity, which is based on testing. Axiomatic, denotational, and other program semantics are more difficult to verify than the codes, which they represent! But, are there any limits to testing? And how can we maximize the reliability of software or hardware products through testing? These are essential questions that need to be addressed; and, will be addressed herein.Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quality Software Through Reuse and Integration
Editors: Stuart H. Rubin, Thouraya Bouabana-Tebibel
Series Title: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56157-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56156-1Published: 17 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56157-8Published: 15 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2194-5357
Series E-ISSN: 2194-5365
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 313
Number of Illustrations: 84 b/w illustrations