An adaptation contract describes composition constraints and adaptation requirements among several services which were not initially built to interoperate with each other. The man...
Abstract. Java provides a specification for a user-defined general purpose equivalence operator for objects, but collections such as Set have more stringent requirements. This in...
This paper presents behavior contracts as a new assertion mechanism and a tool that uses such contracts to support the testing of Object-Oriented (OO) systems. A behavior contract...
: A service contract typically specifies the service level, i.e., the quality parameters of the service to be performed. In addition to this static part, there is also the need to ...
Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...