Specifications Are (Preferably) Executable¶
Fuchs, N. E. (1992). Specifications Are (Preferably) Executable. Software Engineering Journal, 7(5), 323-334.
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Mechanisms¶
- Executable-Specification Interpreter
- Its failure mode is the mirror image of its strength: the executable spec is almost always too slow, too coarse, or too unportable to be the production system, so relying on it as the shipped implementation stalls under real load or cannot meet the platform's non-functional demands.
This sourceFuchs argues that executable specifications are usually much less efficient than implementations and do not by themselves satisfy production resource and performance obligations.
- Its failure mode is the mirror image of its strength: the executable spec is almost always too slow, too coarse, or too unportable to be the production system, so relying on it as the shipped implementation stalls under real load or cannot meet the platform's non-functional demands.
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