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This talk aims to shine some light on the grey area that lies in between two related but different topics: testing and formal specifications. Testing is the most widely used verification method used by software developers of all walks of life; formal specifications are an unambiguous means of stating what software should do and not do.
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Claessen, K. (2009). The Twilight Zone: From Testing to Formal Specifications and Back Again. In: Hu, Z. (eds) Programming Languages and Systems. APLAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5904. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10672-9_1
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