NDLI: How Verified is My Code? Falsification-Driven Verification (T)

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Groce, A. Ahmed, I. Jensen, C. McKenney, P.E.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR, USA (Groce, A.; Ahmed, I.; Jensen, C.)
Abstract	Formal verification has advanced to the point that developers can verify the correctness of small, critical modules. Unfortunately, despite considerable efforts, determining if a "verification" verifies what the author intends is still difficult. Previous approaches are difficult to understand and often limited in applicability. Developers need verification coverage in terms of the software they are verifying, not model checking diagnostics. We propose a methodology to allow developers to determine (and correct) what it is that they have verified, and tools to support that methodology. Our basic approach is based on a novel variation of mutation analysis and the idea of verification driven by falsification. We use the CBMC model checker to show that this approach is applicable not only to simple data structures and sorting routines, and verification of a routine in Mozilla's JavaScript engine, but to understanding an ongoing effort to verify the Linux kernel Read-Copy-Update (RCU) mechanism.
Starting Page	737
Ending Page	748
File Size	723662
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781509000258
DOI	10.1109/ASE.2015.40
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-11-09
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Arrays Model checking Software Sorting Computer bugs Software engineering test harnesses model checking verification mutation oracles falsification
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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