Practitioners' views on the use of formal methods: an industrial survey by structured interview


Snook, Colin and Harrison, Rachel, Snook, Colin and Harrison, Rachel (eds.) (2001) Practitioners' views on the use of formal methods: an industrial survey by structured interview. Information and Software Technology, 43, (4), 275-283.

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The recognised deficiency in the level of empirical investigation of software engineering methods is particularly acute in the area of formal methods, where reports about their usefulness vary widely. We interviewed several formal methods users about the use of formal methods and their impact on various aspects of software engineering including the effects on the company, its products and its development processes as well as pragmatic issues such as scalability, understandability and tool support. The interviews are a first stage of empirical assessment. Future work will investigate some of the issues raised using formal experimentation and case studies.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Event Dates: 17/04/00 - 19/04/00
ISSNs: 0950-5849
Keywords: formal methods, empirical assessment, survey
Divisions: Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering > Electronics and Computer Science > Electronic & Software Systems
Item ID: 257703
Date Deposited: 18 Jun 2003
Last Modified: 15 Aug 2012 03:07
Contributors: Snook, Colin (Author)
Harrison, Rachel (Author)
Snook, Colin (Editor)
Harrison, Rachel (Editor)
Date: March 2001
Additional Information: Event Dates: 17/04/00 - 19/04/00
Status: Published
Publisher: Elsevier
Further Information:Google Scholar
ISI Citation Count:8
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/257703

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