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Design by contract

Design by contract (DbC), also known as contract programming, programming by contract and design-by-contract programming, is an approach for designing software.

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Design by contract

Nodes65
Edges64
Triples25
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.030769
Components1

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Design by contract

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related to External links · 12
Design by contract → An, Benefits, Building, Contract, DbC, Design, O-O, Older, RPS-ObixUsing Code Contracts, Safer Code, The Power, TM
related to history · 9
Design by contract → Bertrand Meyer, Contract, December, Design, Eiffel, Eiffel Software, Hoare, Object-Oriented Software Construction, The
related to Relationship to software testing · 4
Design by contract → Design, Rather, The, This

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contract software design client supplier contracts dbc preconditions programming class code approach method must also eiffel precondition certain data obligations

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Design by contractrelated to External linksThe Power0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksDesign0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksContract0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksTM0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksDbC0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksBuilding0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksO-O0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksAn0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksOlder0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksBenefits0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksRPS-ObixUsing Code Contracts0.60section
Design by contractrelated to External linksSafer Code0.60section

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