The groundbreaking book Design Driven Testing brings sanity back to the software development process by flipping around the concept of Test Driven Development (TDD)—restoring the concept of using testing to verify a design instead of pretending that unit tests are a replacement for design. Anyone who feels that TDD is...
Defining a new development life-cycle methodology, together with a set of associated techniques and tools to develop highly critical systems using formal techniques, this book adopts a rigorous safety assessment approach explored via several layers (from requirements analysis to automatic source code generation).
With increasing design complexity, verification becomes a more and more important aspect of the design flow. Modern circuits contain up to several million transistors. In the meantime it has been observed that verification becomes the major bottleneck, i.e. up to 80% of the overall design costs are due to verification. This is...
It is widely acknowledged that the cost of validation and testing comprises a significant percentage of the overall development costs for electronic systems today, and is expected to escalate sharply in the future. Many studies have shown that up to 70% of the design development time and resources are spent on functional...
For your whole life, you’ve been hearing people tell you that education is the key to a good career. But the best-kept secret about careers is that most job skills are learned on the job. Still, young people face a chicken-and-egg problem: How do you get the job where you can learn the skills if you don’t have the skills that qualify...
Relational databases hold data, right? They indeed do, but to think of a database as nothing more than a container for data is to miss out on the profound power that underlies relational technology. A far more powerful way of thinking lies in relational technology's foundation in the mathematical disciplines of logic and set theory.
Since the early 1960s it has gradually become accepted that a modern academic training in optics should include a heavy exposure to the concepts of Fourier analysis and linear systems theory. This book is based on the thesis that a similar stage has been reached with respect to the tools of probability and statistics and that some training in the...
The last decade has witnessed a modest but sustained increase in researching and applying formal methods. A number of well cited success stories are now available and provide strong evidence that formal methods can be effective and deployed in industrial-scale applications.
Through fundamental contributions from leading researchers, this...
This book is designed to help students learn how to analyze and interpret research data with basic
statistics. It is intended to be a supplemental text in an introductory (undergraduate or graduate)
statistics or research methods course in the behavioral sciences or education and it can be used in
conjunction with any mainstream text....
This unique book fills a vital gap present in most study and examination guides - it offers inspiration and motivation to make the student want to excel. As such, it is a valuable complement to the author's other book, "Scholars' Secrets". The author shares his personal story about how he overcame poverty and parental abuse,...
Provides less mathematically minded students with a gentle introduction to basic mathematics and some more advanced topics. Covering algebra, trigonometry, calculus and statistics, it manages to combine clarity of presentation with liveliness of style and sympathy for students' needs. It is straightforward, pragmatic and packed full of...
Decision theory provides a formal framework for making logical choices in the face of uncertainty. Given a set of alternatives, a set of consequences, and a correspondence between those sets, decision theory offers conceptually simple procedures for choice. This book presents an overview of the fundamental concepts and outcomes of rational decision...
