Abstract
Formal methods are often discussed as if they are concerned with purely technical actions and decisions, guided by mathematical principles. On the contrary, analysis of industrial case studies shows that the adoption and use of such methods involves many social and organisational factors which should receive at least as much study as the technical factors. Failure to give these adequate attention may be one of the causes of the slow acceptance of formal methods in industry.
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Nicholls, J.E. (1992). Domains of application for formal methods. In: Nicholls, J.E. (eds) Z User Workshop, York 1991. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3203-5_7
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