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Formal Verification, Engineering and Business Value

Software Engineering 2013-01-03 v1

Abstract

How to apply automated verification technology such as model checking and static program analysis to millions of lines of embedded C/C++ code? How to package this technology in a way that it can be used by software developers and engineers, who might have no background in formal verification? And how to convince business managers to actually pay for such a software? This work addresses a number of those questions. Based on our own experience on developing and distributing the Goanna source code analyzer for detecting software bugs and security vulnerabilities in C/C++ code, we explain the underlying technology of model checking, static analysis and SMT solving, steps involved in creating industrial-proof tools.

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@article{arxiv.1301.0037,
  title  = {Formal Verification, Engineering and Business Value},
  author = {Ralf Huuck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0037},
  year   = {2013}
}

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In Proceedings FTSCS 2012, arXiv:1212.6574

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