Specifying Software

A Hands-On Introduction

R D Tennent

290 pages, parution le 08/04/2002

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Résumé

Provides an innovative hands-on introduction to techniques for specifying the behaviour of software components. It is primarily intended for use as a text book for a course in the 2nd or 3rd year of Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs, but it is also suitable for self-study. Using this book will help the reader improve programming skills and gain a sound foundation and motivation for subsequent courses in advanced algorithms and data structures, software design, formal methods, compilers, programming languages, and theory.

The presentation is based on numerous examples and case studies appropriate to the level of programming expertise of the intended readership. The main topics covered are techniques for using programmer-friendly assertional notations to specify, develop, and verify small but non-trivial algorithms and data representations, and the use of state diagrams, grammars, and regular expressions to specify and develop recognizers for formal languages.

Contents

Introduction

Part A : Algorithms
1. Specifying Algorithms
2. Verifying algorithms : Basic Techniques
3. Verifying Algorithms : Some Examples
4. Additional Verification Techniques

Part B : Data Representations
5. Data Representation : A Case Study
6. Data Representation : Additional Examples

Part C : Language Recognizers
7. Basic Concepts
8. State-Transition Diagrams
9. Regular Languages
10. Context-Free Languages
11. Parsing

Part D : Unimplementable Specifications
12. A Taste of Computability Theory

Appendices
A. Programming Language Reference
B. Hints for Selected Exercises

Index

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	R D Tennent
Parution	08/04/2002
Nb. de pages	290
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	450g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521004015
ISBN13	978-0-521-00401-5