Advanced Lectures on Software Engineering LASER Summer School 2007/2008 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Müller, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6029
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Software engineering.; Computer programming.; Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Computer logic.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Computer Communication Networks.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Software Engineering.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.; Programming Techniques.

Software defects lead to enormous costs for the software industry and society as a whole. While testing is useful to find bugs, it is insufficient to show the absence of certain kinds of errors or that a program satisfies its specification. Such high levels of software quality can be achieved by sof...

Table of Contents:

• Fine-Grain Concurrency
• Compensable Transactions
• SCOOP – A Contract-Based Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming Model
• Using the Spec# Language, Methodology, and Tools to Write Bug-Free Programs
• Fixpoints and Search in PVS
• Multi Core Design for Chip Level Multiprocessing.