Program Verification

Author : Jacques Loeckx
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Program Verification written by Jacques Loeckx and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Foundations of Program Verification Second Edition Jacques Loeckx and Kurt Sieber Fachbereich informatik Universität des Saariandes, Saarbrücken, Germany In collaboration with Ryan D. Stansifer Department of Computer Science Cornell University, USA This revised edition provides a precise mathematical background to several program verification techniques. It concentrates on those verification methods that have now become classic, such as the inductive assertions method of Floyd, the axiomatic method of Hoare, and Scott‘s fixpoint induction. The aim of the book is to present these different verification methods in a simple setting and to explain their mathematical background in particular the problems of correctness and completeness of the different methods are discussed in some detail and many helpful examples are included. Contents Authors’ Preface Part A: Preliminaries Mathematical Preliminaries Predicate Logic Part B: Semantics of Programming Languages Three Simple Programming Languages Fixpoints in Complete Partial Orders Denotational Semantics Part C: Program Verification Methods Correctness of Programs The Classical Methods of Floyd The Axiomatic Method of Hoare Verification Methods Based on Denotational Semantics LCF A Logic for Computable Functions Part D: Prospects An Overview of Further Developments Bibliography Index Review of the First Edition ‘… one of the better books currently available which introduces program verification.’ G. Bunting, University College Cardiff University Computing

Author : Wolfgang Ahrendt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319498126
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deductive Software Verification – The KeY Book written by Wolfgang Ahrendt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Static analysis of software with deductive methods is a highly dynamic field of research on the verge of becoming a mainstream technology in software engineering. It consists of a large portfolio of - mostly fully automated - analyses: formal verification, test generation, security analysis, visualization, and debugging. All of them are realized in the state-of-art deductive verification framework KeY. This book is the definitive guide to KeY that lets you explore the full potential of deductive software verification in practice. It contains the complete theory behind KeY for active researchers who want to understand it in depth or use it in their own work. But the book also features fully self-contained chapters on the Java Modeling Language and on Using KeY that require nothing else than familiarity with Java. All other chapters are accessible for graduate students (M.Sc. level and beyond). The KeY framework is free and open software, downloadable from the book companion website which contains also all code examples mentioned in this book.

Author : José Bacelar Almeida
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0857290185
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigorous Software Development written by José Bacelar Almeida and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of mathematical methods in the development of software is essential when reliable systems are sought; in particular they are now strongly recommended by the official norms adopted in the production of critical software. Program Verification is the area of computer science that studies mathematical methods for checking that a program conforms to its specification. This text is a self-contained introduction to program verification using logic-based methods, presented in the broader context of formal methods for software engineering. The idea of specifying the behaviour of individual software components by attaching contracts to them is now a widely followed approach in program development, which has given rise notably to the development of a number of behavioural interface specification languages and program verification tools. A foundation for the static verification of programs based on contract-annotated routines is laid out in the book. These can be independently verified, which provides a modular approach to the verification of software. The text assumes only basic knowledge of standard mathematical concepts that should be familiar to any computer science student. It includes a self-contained introduction to propositional logic and first-order reasoning with theories, followed by a study of program verification that combines theoretical and practical aspects - from a program logic (a variant of Hoare logic for programs containing user-provided annotations) to the use of a realistic tool for the verification of C programs (annotated using the ACSL specification language), through the generation of verification conditions and the static verification of runtime errors.

Author : Krzysztof R. Apt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780387948966
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs written by Krzysztof R. Apt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software -- Software Engineering.

Author : Timothy T.R. Colburn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401117934
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Program Verification written by Timothy T.R. Colburn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most important problems confronting computer science is that of developing a paradigm appropriate to the discipline. Proponents of formal methods - such as John McCarthy, C.A.R. Hoare, and Edgar Dijkstra - have advanced the position that computing is a mathematical activity and that computer science should model itself after mathematics. Opponents of formal methods - by contrast, suggest that programming is the activity which is fundamental to computer science and that there are important differences that distinguish it from mathematics, which therefore cannot provide a suitable paradigm. Disagreement over the place of formal methods in computer science has recently arisen in the form of renewed interest in the nature and capacity of program verification as a method for establishing the reliability of software systems. A paper that appeared in Communications of the ACM entitled, `Program Verification: The Very Idea', by James H. Fetzer triggered an extended debate that has been discussed in several journals and that has endured for several years, engaging the interest of computer scientists (both theoretical and applied) and of other thinkers from a wide range of backgrounds who want to understand computer science as a domain of inquiry. The editors of this collection have brought together many of the most interesting and important studies that contribute to answering questions about the nature and the limits of computer science. These include early papers advocating the mathematical paradigm by McCarthy, Naur, R. Floyd, and Hoare (in Part I), others that elaborate the paradigm by Hoare, Meyer, Naur, and Scherlis and Scott (in Part II), challenges, limits and alternatives explored by C. Floyd, Smith, Blum, and Naur (in Part III), and recent work focusing on formal verification by DeMillo, Lipton, and Perlis, Fetzer, Cohn, and Colburn (in Part IV). It provides essential resources for further study. This volume will appeal to scientists, philosophers, and laypersons who want to understand the theoretical foundations of computer science and be appropriately positioned to evaluate the scope and limits of the discipline.

Author : B. Berard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3662045583
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Systems and Software Verification written by B. Berard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Model checking is a powerful approach for the formal verification of software. It automatically provides complete proofs of correctness, or explains, via counter-examples, why a system is not correct. Here, the author provides a well written and basic introduction to the new technique. The first part describes in simple terms the theoretical basis of model checking: transition systems as a formal model of systems, temporal logic as a formal language for behavioral properties, and model-checking algorithms. The second part explains how to write rich and structured temporal logic specifications in practice, while the third part surveys some of the major model checkers available.

Author : David A. Vogel
Publisher : Artech House
ISBN 13 : 1596934239
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Device Software Verification, Validation and Compliance written by David A. Vogel and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HereOCOs the first book written specifically to help medical device and software engineers, QA and compliance professionals, and corporate business managers better understand and implement critical verification and validation processes for medical device software.Offering you a much broader, higher-level picture than other books in this field, this book helps you think critically about software validation -- to build confidence in your softwareOCOs safety and effectiveness. The book presents validation activities for each phase of the development lifecycle and shows: why these activities are important and add value; how to undertake them; and what outputs need to be created to document the validation process.From software embedded within medical devices, to software that performs as a medical device itself, this comprehensive book explains how properly handled validation throughout the development lifecycle can help bring medical devices to completion sooner, at higher quality, in compliance with regulations."

Author : Krzysztof Apt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 184882744X
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verification of Sequential and Concurrent Programs written by Krzysztof Apt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIS BOOK CONTAINS a most comprehensive text that presents syntax-directed and compositional methods for the formal veri?- T cation of programs. The approach is not language-bounded in the sense that it covers a large variety of programming models and features that appear in most modern programming languages. It covers the classes of - quential and parallel, deterministic and non-deterministic, distributed and object-oriented programs. For each of the classes it presents the various c- teria of correctness that are relevant for these classes, such as interference freedom, deadlock freedom, and appropriate notions of liveness for parallel programs. Also, special proof rules appropriate for each class of programs are presented. In spite of this diversity due to the rich program classes cons- ered, there exist a uniform underlying theory of veri?cation which is synt- oriented and promotes compositional approaches to veri?cation, leading to scalability of the methods. The text strikes the proper balance between mathematical rigor and - dactic introduction of increasingly complex rules in an incremental manner, adequately supported by state-of-the-art examples. As a result it can serve as a textbook for a variety of courses on di?erent levels and varying durations. It can also serve as a reference book for researchers in the theory of veri?- tion, in particular since it contains much material that never before appeared in book form. This is specially true for the treatment of object-oriented p- grams which is entirely novel and is strikingly elegant.

Author : Aristides Dasso
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1591408512
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verification, Validation and Testing in Software Engineering written by Aristides Dasso and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores different applications in V & V that spawn many areas of software development -including real time applications- where V & V techniques are required, providing in all cases examples of the applications"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Klaus Havelund
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319175246
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NASA Formal Methods written by Klaus Havelund and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on NASA Formal Methods, NFM 2015, held in Pasadena, CA, USA, in April 2015. The 24 revised regular papers presented together with 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The topics include model checking, theorem proving; SAT and SMT solving; symbolic execution; static analysis; runtime verification; systematic testing; program refinement; compositional verification; security and intrusion detection; modeling and specification formalisms; model-based development; model-based testing; requirement engineering; formal approaches to fault tolerance; and applications of formal methods.