Verification of Business Rules Programs

This book is on business rules programs, that is, rule programs as handled in business rules management systems.

Its conceptual contribution is to present the foundation for treating business rules as a topic of scientific investigation in semantics and program verification, while its technical contribution is to present an approach to the formal verification of business rules programs.

The author proposes a method for proving correctness properties for a business rules program in a compositional way, meaning that the proof of a correctness property for a program is built up from correctness properties for the individual rules-thus bridging a gap between the intuitive understanding of rules and the formal semantics of rule programs.

With this approach the author enables rule authors and tool developers to understand, express formally, and prove properties of the execution behavior of business rules programs.