Developers make assumptions about how our code will behave when executed, but we’re not always right. Without certainty, it is challenging to write programs that work correctly at runtime. Java ...

Marco Dahms has been working as a software architect for 18 years. His areas of expertise include clean code, continuous integration, cloud computing, distributed architectures, and Kubernetes. Unit ...

Hardware designers and verification engineers have embraced the use of assertions. They are a way to formally specify a design's intended behavior, which must hold true during the course of a design ...

Recent assertion-standardization achievements hold the promise of improving verification efficiency and allowing formal verification to work with simulation. There are tools that support assertion ...

The term assert is a Java keyword that was introduced into the language with the JDK 1.4 release in February 2002. Java's assert keyword is unique in two very interesting ways: The Java assert is ...

From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. The next several Java 101 articles present a toolbox of essential Java ...

Many people are predicting that assertions will be the next big breakthrough to enable engineers to continue to design and verify larger and more complex designs. Assertion-based methodologies bring ...