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Incremental reachability checking of KernelC programs using matching logic

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Alessandro Maria RizziAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE Companion 2014: Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

Pages 724 - 726

https://doi.org/10.1145/2591062.2591197

Published: 31 May 2014 Publication History

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A fundamental phase in software development deals with verifying that software behaves correctly. Although accurate testing can discover many wrong behaviours, formal software verification techniques can help in developing applications that dependably satisfy their requirements. However, since formal verification techniques are time consuming and software changes continuously, incremental verification methods, i.e., methods which reuse the results of the verification of a previous version when verifying a new version of a program, are very useful, since they can significantly reduce the time required to perform the verification.

In this work I apply a syntactic-semantic incremental approach to reachability checking of KernelC programs using matching logic. KernelC is a significant, non-trivial subset of the C programming language. Matching logic is a language-independent proof system to reason about programs in any language that has a rewrite-based operational semantics. Incrementality is achieved by encoding the verification procedure in a syntax-driven fashion based on semantic attributes defined on top of an operator-precedence grammar.

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Bianculli DFilieri AGhezzi CMandrioli DRizzi A(2015)Syntax-Driven Program Verification of Matching Logic PropertiesProceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 3rd FME Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Engineering10.1109/FormaliSE.2015.18(68-74)Online publication date: 18-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/FormaliSE.2015.18

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ICSE Companion 2014: Companion Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering

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DOI:10.1145/2591062

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Bianculli DFilieri AGhezzi CMandrioli DRizzi AGnesi SPlat N(2015)Syntax-driven program verification of matching logic propertiesProceedings of the Third FME Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Engineering10.5555/2820126.2820143(68-74)Online publication date: 16-May-2015
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Bianculli DFilieri AGhezzi CMandrioli DRizzi A(2015)Syntax-Driven Program Verification of Matching Logic PropertiesProceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM 3rd FME Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Engineering10.1109/FormaliSE.2015.18(68-74)Online publication date: 18-May-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/FormaliSE.2015.18

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