The ideal software contract fully specifies the behavior of an operation. Often, in particular in the context of scripting languages, a full specification may be cumbersome to s...
Phillip Heidegger, Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thieman...
Sketching is a software synthesis approach where the programmer develops a partial implementation — a sketch — and a separate specification of the desired functionality. The ...
Improving the structure of code can help developers work with a software system more efficiently and more consistently. To aid developers in re-structuring the implementation of c...
Software system documentation is almost always expressed informally in natural language and free text. Examples include requirement specifications, design documents, manual pages, ...
concerns, abstraction (particularly hierarchical abstraction), simplicity, and restricted visibility (locality of information). The overall goal behind these principles was stated ...