Design Patterns and Contracts

Jean-Marc Jézéquel is a research manager in the Irisa Lab for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. His areas of expertise include software engineering and object-oriented technologies for telecommunications and distributed computers. He is the author of Object-Oriented Software Engineering with Eiffel (Addison-Wesley) and has written numerous articles for various international publications.

Michel Train is part of the software architecture team in Lucent Rennes, where he designs new releases of a switch, based on object-oriented technology, that includes a significant use of patterns. Previously, at Transpac, he worked on network management software, as well as artificial intelligence applied to network management and information retrieval. For France Telecom he worked on user-interface software design, building a tool to produce user-interface code from an applicative model and collaboration patterns.

Christine Mingins is Associate Head of School in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University (Australia), where she has led the use of object-oriented methods at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her publications span software metrics, reusable components, IT education, analysis and design methods, and management issues. She has been the program chair of TOOLS Pacific, and helped start the Trusted Components Initiative (trusted-components).

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