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This paper presents an algebraic specification language (PLUSS) and a program construction method. Programs are built systematically from an algebraic specification of the data they deal with. The feasability of the method was tested on a realistic problem (part of a telephone switching system). In these experiments, it turned out that error handling was the difficult part both to specify and to program. This paper shows how to cope with this problem at the specification level and during the program development process.
The full version of this paper will appear in the Proceedings of the 7th ICSE, ORLANDO USA, March 1984.
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Bidoit, M., Biebow, B., Gaudel, M.C., Gresse, C., Guiho, G. (1984). Exception Handling: Formal Specification and Systematic Program Construction Extended Abstract. In: Pepper, P. (eds) Program Transformation and Programming Environments. NATO ASI Series, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46490-4_22
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