Property specifications concisely describe aspects of what a system is supposed to do. No matter what notation is used to describe them, however, it is difficult to represent thes...
Rachel L. Cobleigh, George S. Avrunin, Lori A. Cla...
We consider the problem if a given program satisfies a specified safety property. Interesting programs have infinite state spaces, with inputs ranging over infinite domains, and f...
Bhargav S. Gulavani, Thomas A. Henzinger, Yamini K...
We develop a method for matching dynamic histories of program executions of two program versions. The matches produced can be useful in many applications including software piracy...
One of the benefits of finite-state verification (FSV) tools, such as model checkers, is that a counterexample is provided when the property cannot be verified. Not all counterexa...
Jianbin Tan, George S. Avrunin, Lori A. Clarke, Sh...
Five modern static analysis tools (ARCHER, BOON, PolySpace C Verifier, Splint, and UNO) were evaluated using source code examples containing 14 exploitable buffer overflow vulnera...