Algebraic specification -- Development of implementation -- Distributed systems -- Transformation -- Verification -- A language family for programming and meta-programmming -- PAnndA-S reference manual -- Semantics of PAnndA-S -- PAnndA reference manual -- PAnndA standard types and predefined type schemata -- TrafoLa-S reference manual -- Controla reference manual -- TrafoLa-H reference manual -- Uniform transformational development -- Guided tour of the PROSPECTRA System -- Controller -- Library manager -- PAnndA-S editor -- PAnn dA transformer shell -- Attributes for transformations and proof -- Completion subsystem -- Proof subsystem -- The TrafoLa-S editor -- Translators from TrafoLa to SSL and TrafoLa-H -- TrafoLa-H subsystem -- System development components -- Annotated bibliography of the PROSPECTRA project.

This volume gives a coherent presentation of the outcome of the project PROSPECTRA (PROgram development by SPECification and TRAnsformation) that aims to provide a rigorous methodology for developing correct software and a comprehensive support system. The results are substantial: a theoretically well-founded methodology covering the whole development cycle, a very high-level specification and transformation language family allowing meta-program development and formalization of the development process itself, and a prototype development system supporting structure editing, incremental static-semantic checking, interactive context-sensitivetransformation and verification, development of transformation (meta-) programs, version management, and so on, with an initial libraryof specifications and a sizeable collection of implemented transformations. The intended audience for this documentation is the academic community working in this and related areas and those members of the industrial community interested in the use of formal methods.