Testing And Validation Ocaml Programming Chapter 6 Video 12

Summary

"Bugs" are not the best term for thinking about errors in programs. "Faults" and "failures" are better. Textbook: ... A template for function specifications Textbook: cs3110.github.io/textbook. Drilling down into the parts of a function specification: preconditions, postconditions, examples. Textbook: ... Bisect is a tool for automated glass-box A notion of "behavioral equality" is at the heart of reasoning about the correctness of functional programs Textbook: ... Specifying a data abstraction's interface — the client's perspective Textbook: cs3110.github.io/textbook. Abstraction functions are...abstract. So how could you implement them? Conversion to strings is an example. Textbook: ... Proof by induction of the correctness of an efficient, iterative version of the factorial function. An interesting facet is that the proof ... Developing a second implementation of a data abstraction, as an ongoing example of the documentation that implementers need ...