Formal Specification of Software
• Curriculum Module
This 1987 report introduces formal specification of concurrent software and verification of the consistency between concurrent programs and their specifications.
Publisher
Software Engineering Institute
CMU/SEI Report Number
CMU/SEI-87-CM-008Abstract
This module introduces methods for the formal specification of programs and large software systems, and reviews the domains of application of these methods. Its emphasis is on the functional properties of software. It does not deal with the specification of programming languages, the specification of user-computer interfaces, or the verification of programs. Neither does it attempt to cover the specification of distributed systems.