The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming languages ...

Learning a new programming language can be fun and interesting. Ada and SPARK, a version of Ada that allows static proof of a program's operation, are very useful for developing high quality software.

Ada is a general purpose programming language designed safety and high reliability applications. Spark is a subset that uses contracts that allow a program to be proven correct at compile time. You ...

Recent progress in software engineering includes the development of models and technology to improve software processes and architectures. This chapter highlights some of these approaches as a ...