Specification-Driven Development Life Cycle
SpecOps: International Workshop on Specification-Driven Development Life Cycle
In conjunction with
International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications - Software for Humanity 2026
October 3-9, 2026
Oakland Marriott City Center
Oakland, California, United States
SpecOps is a first-edition workshop on what the organisers call the specification gap, meaning the widening distance between what stakeholders intend and what a system actually does. Its premise is that AI tooling and autonomous agents can turn specifications from static documentation into living, executable artefacts that span the development lifecycle. It draws people from software engineering, programming languages, formal methods and artificial intelligence, which makes it unusually cross-disciplinary for a SPLASH satellite.
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