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 ...

Managers who prepare financial statements from company records according to standard accounting procedures make assertions about the data in the statements. For example, management asserts that each ...

Design-for-verification (DFV) using assertions has received much attention in the recent technical press. Coverage has ranged from standardization efforts for assertion languages to complete DFV ...

When a business is audited, the reviewer job is to ensure that management's assertions in the financial statements are verifiably true. To assess the validity of these claims, the auditor will conduct ...

Assertions have been in the software engineering canon for many years, most notably as the centerpiece of the Design by Contract facility that Bertrand Meyer built into his Eiffel programming language ...

The SystemVerilog standard is the result of an industry-wide effort to extend the Verilog language in a consistent way to include enhanced modeling and verification features. By adding verification ...