The AutoProof Verifier: Usability by non-experts and on standard code

• Main Authors: FURIA, Carlo A., POSKITT, Christopher M., TSCHANNEN, Julian
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4920; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5923/viewcontent/Furia_PT.F_IDE.2015.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Formal verification tools are often developed by experts for experts; as a result, their usability by programmers with little formal methods experience may be severely limited. In this paper, we discuss this general phenomenon with reference to AutoProof: a tool that can verify the full functional c...