Primarily intended as an introduction to the ideas of formal specification, to form part of an undergraduate course in computer science and providing a new approach to the process of software development, based on the work of the Z community at the Programming Research Group at Oxford, the main emphasis of this book is on formal specification. Features include discussions of formal methods of program development from specifications, and management issues involved in the adoption of more formal approaches to software development. It introduces concepts from discrete mathematics which are relevant to formal specification and presents the basic ideas involved in rigorous methods of software development from formal specifications.
- ISBN10 0134787021
- ISBN13 9780134787022
- Publish Date 1 April 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Prentice-Hall
- Format Paperback
- Pages 324
- Language English