Francisco-2012
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Master thesis
| Title | Contract-Java: Design by Contract in Java |
|---|---|
| Author | Pedro Filipe do Amaral Goucha Francisco |
| School | MIECT, Universidade de Aveiro |
| Address | |
| Month | December |
| Year | 2012 |
| Advisor | Miguel Oliveira e Silva |
| Group | |
| Group (before 2015) | Information Systems and Telematics Laboratory |
Design by Contract is a programming methodology which implements correction mechanisms well adapted to object-oriented programming, easing the construction of correct and robust software, as well as allowing its documentation and specification and the construction of fault-tolerance programs. However, unlike object-oriented programming, Design by Contract has a very low distribution. One of the reasons for such is the lack of support for it on most programming languages currently in use, in which Java is included. Although a few tools attempt to workaround such lack of support, they all present incomplete approaches which do not support all the advantages and capabilities of Design by Contract. In this work, we intend to define which characteristics are necessary in order to fully implement the methodology, evaluating the faults of existing tools and, afterwards, defining and constructing a new language, "Contract-Java", defined as an extension of the Java language, allows to use Design by Contract in its entirety.