The Object Oriented paradigm is influenced by the design by contract principal, wherein, the creator and the consumer mutually agree to follow certain rules. The design by contract theory states that ...

Assertions have been in the software engineering canon for many years, most notably as the centerpiece of the Design by Contract facility that Bertrand Meyer built into his Eiffel programming language ...

The term assert is a Java keyword that was introduced into the language with the JDK 1.4 release in February 2002. Java's assert keyword is unique in two very interesting ways: The Java assert is ...

Part 1 of this two-part series covered the mechanics of using the new assertion facility introduced in J2SE, (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4. This installment discusses the methodology behind ...

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Platform supports assertions in software and hardware By Richard Goering, EE Times May 9, 2003 (4:02 p.m. EST) URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030509S0041 ...

In my quest to find neato things to do with Java (a lot has changed since 1.1!) I've hit a roadblock. I've been testing stuff on a partially written applet (runs, just to do something more intelligent ...