Software that meets its intent

Marieke Huisman*, Herbert Bos, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Arie van Deursen, Jan Friso Groote, Patricia Lago, Jaco van de Pol, Eelco Visser

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Abstract

Software is widely used, and society increasingly depends on its reliability. However, software has become so complex and it evolves so quickly that we fail to keep it under control. Therefore, we propose intents: fundamental laws that capture a software systems’ intended behavior (resilient, secure, safe, sustainable, etc.). The realization of this idea requires novel theories, algorithms, tools, and techniques to discover, express, verify, and evolve software intents. Thus, future software systems will be able to verify themselves that they meet their intents. Moreover, they will be able to respond to deviations from intents through selfcorrection. In this article we propose a research agenda, outlining which novel theories, algorithms and tools are required.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLeveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation: Discussion, Dissemination, Applications - 7th International Symposium, ISoLA 2016, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer/Verlag
Pages609-625
Number of pages17
Volume9953 LNCS
ISBN (Print)9783319471686
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9953 LNCS
ISSN (Print)03029743
ISSN (Electronic)16113349

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