Formal Object-Oriented Development

An overview of the use of formal object-oriented methods: it covers how and where they should be introduced into the development process, how they can be introduced selectively for critical parts of an application, and how to incorporate them effectively into existing developmental practices. The text is illustrated, both with tutorial and self-assessment exercises and with examples of industrial applications from the reactive systems domain. This study should be of interest to academic and industrial researchers, software engineering practitioners and consultants, and aims to provide reading material for students learning Z++ and VDM++.