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by catnaroek 2995 days ago
Automated, huh? There is no replacement for using your brain, and reasoning abstractly about the preconditions and postconditions of program fragments.
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So, you write down the formal requirements you have of an operating system (with aggressive auto-updates enabled, or disabled, as the customer chooses) once, on a piece of paper, and hope that they don't change?

Your method seems impractical in the extreme in a commercial team environment.

I don't need to “hope” for anything. All I have to do is document the program's preconditions.