Contract-Oriented Programming

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Contract-oriented programming is a programming paradigm that associates programs with specifications expressed as contracts. In academic work, it has been used as the foundation for specification languages that combine contracts with finite state machines to drive automated testing.

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Contract-Oriented Programming

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Contract-oriented programming is a software development paradigm in which software components are described alongside explicit contracts that specify the obligations and benefits of interacting with them. These contracts typically define preconditions, postconditions, and invariants that govern the behavior of operations, allowing implementations and their specifications to be reasoned about in a unified framework.

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The specification language is inspired by contract-oriented programming and extends it with finite state machines.

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[1] A specification language has been built by extending contract-oriented programming with finite state machines. A Constraint Logic Programming Approach to Automated Testing

[2] Contract-oriented programming combined with finite state machines has been used to drive automated test case generation, including the synthesis of full test scenarios via symbolic animation of specifications. A Constraint Logic Programming Approach to Automated Testing

[3] The constraint solving framework used with contract-oriented specifications can operate over integer or bounded domains as well as arbitrary types, with type builders linking type semantics to the CSP framework. A Constraint Logic Programming Approach to Automated Testing