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Software Design: Tidy First?

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Formal Methods Pay Off
Kent Beck · 2026-09-18 · via Software Design: Tidy First?

Back in graduate school I spent two quarters TAing for the undergraduate formal methods course. While I have rarely pulled out full-blown formal methods in my career, I find that I use them informally all the time.

Fortune Buchholtz reintroduced me to formal methods a year ago or so. I tried them again but got lost in the proofs, eventually giving up bec…

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