The Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP) is a large computational experiment benchmarking many different software verification tools on a vast collection of C and Java benchmarks. Such experimental research should be reproducible by researchers independent from the team that performed the original experiments. In this reproduction report, we present our recent attempt at reproducing SV-COMP 2023: We chose a meaningful subset of the competition and re-ran it on the competition organiser's infrastructure, using the scripts and tools provided in the competition's archived artifacts. We see minor differences in tool scores that appear explainable by the interaction of small runtime fluctuations with the competition's scoring rules, and successfully reproduce the overall ranking within our chosen subset. Overall, we consider SV-COMP 2023 to be reproducible.
@article{arxiv.2303.06477,
title = {Reproduction Report for SV-COMP 2023},
author = {Marcus Gerhold and Arnd Hartmanns},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06477},
year = {2023}
}
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Presented at the RRRR 2023 workshop on April 22, 2023; see https://qcomp.org/rrrr/2023/. This work was part of the MISSION (Models in Space Systems: Integration, Operation, and Networking) project, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie Actions grant number 101008233