Applying 'design by contract'
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Methodological guidelines for object-oriented software construction that improve the reliability of the resulting software systems are presented. It is shown that the object-oriented techniques rely on the theory of design by contract, which underlies the design of the Eiffel analysis, design, and programming language and of the supporting libraries, from which a number of examples are drawn. The theory of contract design and the role of assertions in that theory are discussed.<
Published in:
Computer
(Volume:25
,
Issue:
10
)
Date of Publication: Oct. 1992