Constraint satisfaction techniques for diagnosing errors in design by contract software.

Design by Contract enables the development of more reliable and robust software applications. In this paper, a methodology that diagnoses errors in software is proposed. This is based on the combination of Design by Contract, Model-based Diagnosis and Constraint Programming. Contracts are specified...

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Published in:	Software engineering notes. 31, 2 (2006).
Main Author:	Ceballos, Rafael
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Software. Software Engineering. Software / Program Verification. Testing and Debugging. Theory of Computation. Logics and meanings of programs. Specifying and verifying and reasoning about programs. Verification. Design by contract. Diagnosis.