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Perfect Developer (PD) is a tool for developing computer programs in a rigorous manner, by developing a formal specification and refining it to code. Although the tool is founded on formal methods, the suppliers claim that advanced mathematical knowledge is not a pre-requisite.

The Perfect specification language used has an object-oriented style, producing code in programming languages like Java and C++. It has been developed by the UK company Escher Technologies Ltd.

PD supports the Verified Design by Contract paradigm (which is an extension of Design by contract) in which the contracts are verified by static analsis, so that it is certain that they will not fail at runtime.



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