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A coverage type generalizes refinement types found in many functional languages with support for must-style underapproximate reasoning. Property-based testing frameworks are one particularly useful domain where such capabilities are useful…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhe Zhou , Benjamin Delaware , Suresh Jagannathan

Property-based testing (PBT) is a popular technique for automatically testing semantic properties of a program, specified as a pair of pre- and post-conditions. The efficacy of this approach depends on being able to quickly generate inputs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Patrick LaFontaine , Zhe Zhou , Ashish Mishra , Suresh Jagannathan , Benjamin Delaware

Verification of large and complicated concurrent programs is an important issue in the software world. Stateless model checking is an appropriate method for systematically and automatically testing of large programs, which has proved its…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Elaheh Ghassabani , Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi

Property-based testing validates software against an executable specification by evaluating it on randomly generated inputs. The standard way that PBT users generate test inputs is via generators that describe how to sample test inputs…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ryan Tjoa , Poorva Garg , Harrison Goldstein , Todd Millstein , Benjamin Pierce , Guy Van den Broeck

We present a new technique called type targeted testing, which translates precise refinement types into comprehensive test-suites. The key insight behind our approach is that through the lens of SMT solvers, refinement types can also be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Eric L. Seidel , Niki Vazou , Ranjit Jhala

Testing is a significant aspect of software development. As systems become complex and their use becomes critical to the security and the function of society, the need for testing methodologies that ensure reliability and detect faults as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Yeshayahu Weiss

A type system combining type application, constants as types, union types (associative, commutative and idempotent) and recursive types has recently been proposed for statically typing path polymorphism, the ability to define functions that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Juan Edi , Andrés Viso , Eduardo Bonelli

The choice of model class is fundamental in statistical learning and system identification, no matter whether the class is derived from physical principles or is a generic black-box. We develop a method to evaluate the specified model class…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-20 Andreas Svensson , Dave Zachariah , Thomas B. Schön

Probabilistic model checking is a technique for formal automated reasoning about software or hardware systems that operate in the context of uncertainty or stochasticity. It builds upon ideas and techniques from a diverse range of fields,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-08 David Parker

We propose a verified approach to the formal verification of timed properties using model-checking techniques. We focus on properties expressed using real-time specification patterns, which can be viewed as a subset of timed temporal logics…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Nouha Abid , Silvano Dal Zilio , Didier Le Botlan

Model checking approaches can be divided into two broad categories: global approaches that determine the set of all states in a model M that satisfy a temporal logic formula f, and local approaches in which, given a state s in M, the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Diego Latella , Michele Loreti , Mieke Massink

In this paper we describe how to leverage higher-order unification to type check a dependently typed language with meta-variables. The literature usually presents the unification algorithm as a standalone component, however the need to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Francesco Mazzoli , Andreas Abel

Many important security properties can be formulated in terms of flows of tainted data, and improved taint analysis tools to prevent such flows are of critical need. Most existing taint analyses use whole-program static analysis, leading to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Nima Karimipour , Kanak Das , Manu Sridharan , Behnaz Hassanshahi

We present in this paper a model-based testing approach aiming at generating test cases from a UML/OCL model and a given test property. The property is expressed using a dedicated formalism based on patterns, and automatically translated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Kalou Cabrera Castillos , Frédéric Dadeau , Jacques Julliand

Model-based mutation testing uses altered test models to derive test cases that are able to reveal whether a modelled fault has been implemented. This requires conformance checking between the original and the mutated model. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Bernhard K. Aichernig , Elisabeth Jöbstl

A type system is introduced for a generic Object Oriented programming language in order to infer resource upper bounds. A sound andcomplete characterization of the set of polynomial time computable functions is obtained. As a consequence,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Emmanuel Hainry , Romain Péchoux

Security verification of communication protocols in industrial and safety-critical systems is challenging because implementations are often proprietary, accessible only as black boxes, and too complex for manual modeling. As a result,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Stefan Marksteiner , Mikael Sjödin , Marjan Sirjani

We propose an approach on model checking information flow for imperative language with procedures. We characterize our model with pushdown system, which has a stack of unbounded length that naturally models the execution of procedural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Cong Sun , Liyong Tang , Zhong Chen

Coverage Types provide a suitable type mechanism that integrates under-approximation logic to support Property-Based Testing. They are used to type the return value of a function that represents an input test generator. This allows us to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Angelo Passarelli , Gian-Luigi Ferrari

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