Software that meets its intent
Marieke Huisman (University of Twente)
Herbert Bos (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Sjaak Brinkkemper (Universiteit Utrecht)
A. Van Deursen (TU Delft - Software Technology)
Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Patricia Lago (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Jaco van de Pol (University of Twente)
E Visser (TU Delft - Programming Languages)
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Abstract
Software is widely used, and society increasingly depends on its reliability. However, software has become so complex and it evolves so quickly that we fail to keep it under control. Therefore, we propose intents: fundamental laws that capture a software systems’ intended behavior (resilient, secure, safe, sustainable, etc.). The realization of this idea requires novel theories, algorithms, tools, and techniques to discover, express, verify, and evolve software intents. Thus, future software systems will be able to verify themselves that they meet their intents. Moreover, they will be able to respond to deviations from intents through selfcorrection. In this article we propose a research agenda, outlining which novel theories, algorithms and tools are required.