@inproceedings{f7667290304a4c6ca61cd4621818be8a,
title = "Towards classification of lightweight formal methods",
abstract = "The use of lightweight formal methods (LFM) for the development of industrial applications has become a major trend. Although the term “lightweight formal methods” has been used for over ten years now, there seems to be no common agreement on what “lightweight” actually means, and different communities apply the term in all kinds of ways. In this paper, we explore the recent trends in the use of LFM, and establish our opinion that cost-effectiveness is the driving force to deploy LFM. Further, we propose a simple framework that should help to classify different LFM approaches and to estimate which of them are most cost-effective for a certain software engineering project. We demonstrate our framework using some examples.",
keywords = "Lightweight Formal Methods, Software Engineering, Software Quality, Validation, Verification",
author = "Anna Zamansky and Maria Spichkova and Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas and Peter Herrmann and Blech, {Jan Olaf}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright 2018 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.; 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2018 ; Conference date: 23-03-2018 Through 24-03-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.5220/0006770803050313",
language = "American English",
series = "ENASE 2018 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering",
pages = "305--313",
editor = "Ernesto Damiani and George Spanoudakis and Leszek Maciaszek",
booktitle = "ENASE 2018 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering",
}