Refinement Techniques in Software Engineering

This tutorial book presents an augmented selection of the material presented at the First Pernambuco Summer School on Software Engineering, PSSE 2004, held in Receife, Brazil in November/December 2004, jointly with the Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods (SBMF 2004). The seven tutorial lectures presented are the thoroughly revised versions of the contributions from the invited lecturers. The courses cover a wide spectrum of topics.

Inhalt

Refinement: An overview.- Transformation Laws for Sequential Object-Oriented Programming.- Using CSP.- Developing and Reasoning About Probabilistic Programs in pGCL.- Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems.- A Tutorial Introduction to CSP in Unifying Theories of Programming.- Using the Compliance Notation in Industry.- Techniques for Temporal Logic Model Checking.