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Utilizing third party software components in the development of new systems became somewhat unfavourable approach among many organizations nowadays. This reluctance is primarily built due to the lack of support to verify the quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-10-16 Basem Y. Alkazemi

We review state-of-the-art formal methods applied to the emerging field of the verification of machine learning systems. Formal methods can provide rigorous correctness guarantees on hardware and software systems. Thanks to the availability…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Caterina Urban , Antoine Miné

Atomicity violations in interrupt-driven programs pose a significant threat to software reliability in safety-critical systems. These violations occur when the execution sequence of operations on shared resources is disrupted by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Hang He , Yixing Luo , Chengcheng Wan , Ting Su , Haiying Sun , Geguang Pu

We present a method for verifying partial correctness properties of imperative programs that manipulate integers and arrays by using techniques based on the transformation of constraint logic programs (CLP). We use CLP as a metalanguage for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Emanuele De Angelis , Fabio Fioravanti , Alberto Pettorossi , Maurizio Proietti

This paper surveys recent work on applying analysis and transformation techniques that originate in the field of constraint logic programming (CLP) to the problem of verifying software systems. We present specialisation-based techniques for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Emanuele De Angelis , Fabio Fioravanti , John P. Gallagher , Manuel V. Hermenegildo , Alberto Pettorossi , Maurizio Proietti

Researchers have recently designed a number of application-specific fault tolerance mechanisms that enable applications to either be naturally resilient to errors or include additional detection and correction steps that can bring the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Brett Boston , Zoe Gong , Michael Carbin

In this paper we promote introducing software verification and control flow graph similarity measurement in automated evaluation of students' programs. We present a new grading framework that merges results obtained by combination of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Milena Vujosevic-Janicic , Mladen Nikolic , Dusan Tosic , Viktor Kuncak

Ladder Logics is a programming language standardized in IEC 61131-3 and widely used for programming industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). A PLC program consists of inputs (whose values are given at runtime by factory sensors),…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Denis Cousineau , David Mentré , Hiroaki Inoue

Many tools and libraries are readily available to build and operate distributed Web applications. While the setup of operational environments is comparatively easy, practice shows that their continuous secure operation is more difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-13 Matteo Maria Casalino , Michele Mangili , Henrik Plate , Serena Elisa Ponta

Formal verification techniques have been playing an important role in pre-silicon validation processes. One of the most important points considered in performing formal verification is to define good verification scopes; we should define…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Yasushi Umezawa , Takeshi Shimizu

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) provide a prominent choice of implementation platform for safety-critical industrial control systems. Formal verification provides ways of establishing correctness guarantees, which can be quite…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Luis Garcia , Stefan Mitsch , Andre Platzer

In the digital age, ensuring the correctness, safety, and reliability of software through formal verification is paramount, particularly as software increasingly underpins critical infrastructure. Formal verification, split into theorem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zhiyong Chen , Jialun Cao , Jiarong Wu , Chang Xu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Performance increase with general-purpose processors has come to a halt. We can no longer depend on Moore's Law to increase computing performance. The only way to achieve higher performance or lower energy consumption is by building…

OpenJML is a tool for checking code and specifications of Java programs. We describe our experience building the tool on the foundation of JML, OpenJDK and Eclipse, as well as on many advances in specification-based software verification.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-29 David R. Cok

Despite the vast body of research literature proposing algorithms with formal guarantees, the amount of verifiable code in today's systems remains minimal. This discrepancy stems from the inherent difficulty of verifying code, particularly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Changjie Wang , Mariano Scazzariello , Marco Chiesa

Neural network verification tools currently support only a narrow class of specifications, typically expressed as low-level constraints over raw inputs and outputs. This limitation significantly hinders their adoption and practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yizhak Y. Elboher , Reuven Peleg , Zhouxing Shi , Guy Katz , Jan Křetínský

Ensuring correctness is a pivotal aspect of software engineering. Among the various strategies available, software verification offers a definitive assurance of correctness. Nevertheless, writing verification proofs is resource-intensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Lichen Zhang , Shuai Lu , Nan Duan

Foundational verification allows programmers to build software which has been empirically shown to have high levels of assurance in a variety of important domains. However, the cost of producing foundationally verified software remains…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Alex Sanchez-Stern , Yousef Alhessi , Lawrence Saul , Sorin Lerner

The technology of formal software verification has made spectacular advances, but how much does it actually benefit the development of practical software? Considerable disagreement remains about the practicality of building systems with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Li Huang , Sophie Ebersold , Alexander Kogtenkov , Bertrand Meyer , Yinling Liu

Proponents of software verification have argued that simpler code is easier to verify: that is, that verification tools issue fewer false positives and require less human intervention when analyzing simpler code. We empirically validate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Kobi Feldman , Martin Kellogg , Oscar Chaparro