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Demand-Driven Specification Partitioning

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Modular Programming Languages (JMLC 2003)

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The paper reflects on why formal methods are quite often not used in projects that better rely on their potential. The expressive density might not be the least among them. To allow users focussed reading, the concept of specification slicing and specification chunking is introduced. An initial evaluation shows that reduction in size obtainable varies, they can be marked with larger specifications though.

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Mittermeir, R.T., Bollin, A. (2003). Demand-Driven Specification Partitioning. In: Böszörményi, L., Schojer, P. (eds) Modular Programming Languages. JMLC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2789. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45213-3_30

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