Robert Bruce Findler
ABSTRACT
Programmers embrace contracts. They can use the language they know and love to formulate logical assertions about the behavior of their programs. They can use the existing IDE infrastructure to log contracts, to test, to debug, and to profile their programs.
The keynote presents the challenges and rewards of supporting contracts in a modern, full-spectrum programming language. It covers technical challenges of contracts while demonstrating the non-technical motivation for contract system design choices and showing how contracts and contract research can serve practicing programmers.
The remainder of this article is a literature survey of contract research, with an emphasis on recent work about higher-order contracts and blame.
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- Behavioral software contracts
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