From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "G.B." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: New SPARK book is published today Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:06:46 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1e1ae25e-9449-41ee-bdfc-0851fcfa7b7b@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nonlegitur@futureapps.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b96887e80893c84a90c3007226ca0d1c"; logging-data="16319"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+lQUVkaUJVGa/q8xdf+fgGfN/7mxtnHuQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:QhctyXAxsaZUR/N+aj22wWdWOPU= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:27785 Date: 2015-09-18T16:06:46+02:00 List-Id: On 03.09.15 12:08, Dirk Craeynest wrote: > In article , > Vincent wrote: > [...about the new SPARK book by John McCormick and Peter Chapin...] >> That's interesting. Would it be possible to see the content of the book, >> i.e. the name of the chapters ? I coudn't find the information on Amazon. > > Some information is available on the publisher's web-page for the book. > See the tab "Contents" on: > > > > Dirk > A Kindle "sample" may now be received from Amazon; it includes the Preface, with chapter outlines, and some of the introductory chapter. Also included is this TOC: Preface 1 Introduction and Overview 1.1 Obtaining Software Quality 1.2 What Is SPARK? 1.3 SPARK Tools 1.4 SPARK Example Summary Exercises 2 The Basic SPARK Language 2.1 Control Structures 2.2 Subprograms 2.3 Data Types 2.4 Subprograms, More Options Summary Exercises 3 Programming in the Large 3.1 Definition Packages 3.2 Utility Packages 3.3 Type Packages 3.4 Variable Packages 3.5 Child Packages 3.6 Elaboration Summary Exercises 4 Dependency Contracts 4.1 Data Dependency Contracts 4.2 Flow Dependency Contracts 4.3 Managing State 4.4 Default Initialization 4.5 Synthesis of Dependency Contracts Summary Exercises 5 Mathematical Background 5.1 Propositional Logic 5.2 Logical Equivalence 5.3 Arguments and Inference 5.4 Predicate Logic Summary Exercises 6 Proof 6.1 Runtime Errors 6.2 Contracts 6.3 Assert and Assume 6.4 Loop Invariants 6.5 Loop Variants 6.6 Discriminants 6.7 Generics 6.8 Suppression of Checks Summary Exercises 7 Interfacing with SPARK 7.1 SPARK and Ada 7.2 SPARK and C 7.3 External Subsystems Summary Exercises 8 Software Engineering with SPARK 8.1 Conversion of SPARK 2005 8.2 Legacy Ada Software 8.3 Creating New Software 8.4 Proof and Testing 8.5 Case Study: Time Stamp Server Summary 9 Advanced Techniques 9.1 Ghost Entities 9.2 Proof of Transitive Properties 9.3 Proof Debugging 9.4 SPARK Internals Notes References Index