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The ergo support system: an integrated set of tools for prototyping integrated environments

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SDE 3: Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments

Pages 25 - 34

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Published: 03 November 1988 Publication History

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The Ergo Support System (ESS) is an engineering framework for experimentation and prototyping to support the application of formal methods to program development, ranging from program analysis and derivation to proof-theoretic approaches. The ESS is a growing suite of tools that are linked together by means of a set of abstract interfaces. The principal engineering challenge is the design of abstract interfaces that are semantically rich and yet flexible enough to permit experimentation with a wide variety of formally-based program and proof development paradigms and associated languages. As part of the design of ESS, several abstract interface designs have been developed that provide for more effective component integration while preserving flexibility and the potential for scaling. A benefit of the open architecture approach of ESS is the ability to mix formal and informal approaches in the same environment architecture. The ESS has already been applied in a number of formal methods experiments.

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SDE 3: Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments

January 1989

257 pages

ISBN:089791290X

DOI:10.1145/64135

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 24, Issue 2
Special issue: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on practical software development environments
Feb. 1989
257 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/64140
Editor:
Peter Henderson
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Special issue: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on practical software development environments
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DOI:10.1145/64137
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