Specifying Software

An innovative hands-on introduction to techniques for specifying the behaviour of software components.

Introduction; Part I. Algorithms: 1. Specifying algorithms; 2. Verifying algorithms: basic techniques; 3. Verifying algorithms: some examples; 4. Additional verification techniques; Part II. Data Representations: 5. Data representation: a case study; 6. Data representation: additional examples; Part III. Language Recognizers: 7. Basic concepts; 8. State-transition diagrams; 9. Regular languages; 10. Context-free languages; 11. Parsing; 12. A taste of computability theory; Appendix A: programming language reference; Appendix B: hints for selected exercises; Index.