Property specifications concisely describe aspects of what a system is supposed to do. No matter what notation is used to describe them, however, it is difficult to represent thes...
Rachel L. Cobleigh, George S. Avrunin, Lori A. Cla...
A fundamental part of a Computer Science degree is learning to program. Rather than starting students on a full commercial language, we favour using a dedicated "teaching lan...
The C language is among the most widely used in the world, particularly for critical infrastructure software. C programs depend upon macros processed using the C preprocessor, but...
Exploring alternative options is at the heart of the requirements and design processes. Different alternatives contribute to different degrees of achievement of non-functional goa...
State machine based formalisms such as labelled transition systems (LTS) are generally assumed to be complete descriptions m behaviour at some level of abstraction: if a labelled ...