Overview
Use TLA+ to uncover complex bugs before you code
Practical, useful examples in distributed systems, threading, business logic, and more
Three case studies that teach the real-world experience
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Semantics of TLA+ and PlusCal
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Applying TLA+
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About this book
You’ll learn how even a short TLA+ spec can find critical bugs. Start by getting your feet wet with an example of TLA+ used in a bank transfer system, to see how it helps you design, test, and build a better application. Then, get some fundamentals of TLA+ operators, logic, functions, PlusCal, models, and concurrency. Along the way you will discover how to organize your blueprints and how to specify distributed systems and eventual consistency.
Finally, you’ll put what you learn into practice with some working case study applications, applying TLA+ to a wide variety of practical problems: from algorithm performance and data structures to business code and MapReduce. After reading and using this book, you'll have what you need to get started with TLA+ and how to use it in your mission-critical applications.
What You'll Learn
- Read and write TLA+ specs
- Check specs for broken invariants, race conditions, and liveness bugs
- Design concurrency and distributed systems
- Learn how TLA+ can help you with your day-to-day production work
Who This Book Is For
Those with programming experience who are new to design and to TLA+.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hillel Wayne is a software consultant who specializes in formal methods and specification. He also writes on empirical engineering, software history, and education. In his free time, he juggles and makes chocolate. He lives in Chicago. You can find his other work at hillelwayne.com or on Twitter at @hillelogram.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Practical TLA+
Book Subtitle: Planning Driven Development
Authors: Hillel Wayne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3829-5
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Hillel Wayne 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3828-8Published: 12 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3829-5Published: 11 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters, Programming Techniques, Software Engineering