Validation and Verification of Formal Specifications in Object-Oriented Software Engineering

The use of formal specifications allows for a software system to be defined with stringent mathematical semantics and syntax via such tools as propositional calculus and set theory. There are many perceived benefits garnered from formal specifications, such as a thorough and in-depth understanding of the domain and system being specified and a reduction in user requirement ambiguity. Probably the greatest benefit of formal specifications, and that which is least capitalized upon, is that mathematical proof procedures can be used to test and prove internal consistency and syntactic correctness in an effort to ensure comprehensive validation and verification (VAir Force Inst of Tech Wright-Patterson AFB OH is the author of 'Validation and Verification of Formal Specifications in Object-Oriented Software Engineering', published 2000 under ISBN 9781423533009 and ISBN 1423533003.