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Automatic verification of advanced object-oriented features: The AutoProof approach (2012)
| Venue: | In LASER Tools for Practical Software Verification, volume 7682 of LNCS |
| Citations: | 4 - 4 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Tschannen12automaticverification,
author = {Julian Tschannen and Carlo A. Furia and Martin Nordio},
title = {Automatic verification of advanced object-oriented features: The AutoProof approach},
booktitle = {In LASER Tools for Practical Software Verification, volume 7682 of LNCS},
year = {2012},
pages = {134--156},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. Static program verifiers such as Spec#, Dafny, jStar, and VeriFast define the state of the art in automated functional verification techniques. The next open challenges are to make verification tools usable even by programmers not fluent in formal techniques. This paper discusses some techniques used in AutoProof, a verification tool that translates Eiffel programs to Boogie and uses the Boogie verifier to prove them. In an effort to be usable with real programs, AutoProof fully supports several advanced object-oriented features including polymorphism, inheritance, and function objects. AutoProof also adopts simple strategies to reduce the amount of annotations needed when verifying programs (e.g., frame conditions). The paper illustrates the main features of Auto-Proof’s translation, including some whose implementation is underway, and demonstrates them with examples and a case study. 1 Usable Verification Tools It is hard to overstate the importance of tools for software verification: tools
Keyphrases
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