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This chapter is about building package specifications and understanding them. Given an English description, how should we tackle the problem of specifying a package to fit the description? How do we begin? What are the steps in the process — can we build upon (or “reuse”) previous specifications? How can we figure out the consequences of a specification? When are we finished?
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Luckham, D. (1990). The Process of Specifying Packages. In: Programming with Specifications. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9685-7_6
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