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Software engineering

specifying software components with preconditions, postconditions and invariants that act as mutual obligations between caller and supplier.

In software engineering, design by contract refers to specifying software components with preconditions, postconditions and invariants that act as mutual obligations between caller and supplier. This meaning comes from Meyer (1992) in Computer.[1]

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Meyer, B. (1992). Applying 'design by contract'. Computer, 25(10), 40-51. https://doi.org/10.1109/2.161279

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