I introduced Java by Contract, a tool for building design-by-contract style invariants, preconditions and postconditions in Java using annotations. It’s MIT licensed, contributions are welcome, and I hope this helps lots of people to introduce stronger correctness checking into your software. And book office hours if you’d like me to help you with that.
Java by Contract came about as part of Research Watch, a new blog series over at The Labrary where I talk about academic work and how us “practitioners” (i.e. people who computer who aren’t in academia) can make use of the results. The first post considers a report of Teaching Quality Object-Oriented Programming to computer science students.
By the way, I will be speaking at Coventry Tech Meetup on 10th January on the topic “Beyond TDD”, and Java by Contract will make an appearance there.
Long-time SICPers readers will remember Programming Literate, a Tumblr discussing results from empirical software engineering. And if you don’t, you’ll probably remember your feeds exploding on July 15, 2013 when I imported all of the posts from there to here. You can think of Research Watch as a reboot of Programming Literate. There’ll be papers new and vintage, empirical and opinionated, on a range of computing topics. If that sounds interesting, subscribe to the Labrary’s RSS feed.
