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Formal specification

In computer science, formal specifications are mathematically based techniques whose purpose are to help with the implementation of systems and software. They are used to describe a system, to analyze its behavior, and to aid in its design by verifying key properties of interest through rigorous and effective reasoning tools.[1][2] These specifications are formal in the sense that they have a syntax, their semantics fall within one domain, and they are able to be used to infer useful information.[3]

  1. ^ Hierons, R. M.; Bogdanov, K.; Bowen, J. P.; Cleaveland, R.; Derrick, J.; Dick, J.; Gheorghe, M.; Harman, M.; Kapoor, K.; Krause, P.; Lüttgen, G.; Simons, A. J. H.; Vilkomir, S. A.; Woodward, M. R.; Zedan, H. (2009). "Using formal specifications to support testing". ACM Computing Surveys. 41 (2): 1. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.144.3320. doi:10.1145/1459352.1459354. S2CID 10686134.
  2. ^ Gaudel, M.-C. (1994). "Formal specification techniques". Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Software Engineering. pp. 223–227. doi:10.1109/ICSE.1994.296781. ISBN 978-0-8186-5855-6. S2CID 60740848.
  3. ^ Lamsweerde, A. V. (2000). "Formal specification". Proceedings of the conference on the future of Software engineering - ICSE '00. pp. 147–159. doi:10.1145/336512.336546. ISBN 978-1581132533. S2CID 4657483.

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