C H A P T E R  8

Contract-Oriented Programming

by John Beresniewicz

This chapter will introduce you to a powerful software engineering paradigm called Design by Contract and a method for applying it to PL/SQL programming.

Design by Contract

The following quote struck me as a revelation of software-truth when I first read it sometime in the year 2000:

Design by Contract is a powerful metaphor that…makes it possible to design software systems of much higher reliability than ever before; the key is understanding that reliability problems (more commonly known as bugs) largely occur at module boundaries, and most often result from inconsistencies in both sides’ expectations. Design by Contract promotes a much more systematic approach to this issue ...

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