ntegrating Formal Program Verification with Testing

International audienceVerification activities mandated for critical software are essential to achieve the required level of confidence expected in life-critical or business-critical software. They are becoming increasingly costly as, over time, they require the development and maintenance of a large body of functional and robustness tests on larger and more complex applications. Formal program verification offers a way to reduce these costs while providing stronger guarantees than testing. Addressing verification activities with formal verification is supported by upcoming standards such as do-178c for software development in avionics. In the Hi-Lite project, we pursue the integration of formal verification with testing for projects developed in C or Ada. In this paper, we discuss the conditions under which this integration is at least as strong as testing alone. We describe associated costs and benefits, using a simple banking database application as a case study

ntegrating Formal Program Verification with Testing

International audienceVerification activities mandated for critical software are essential to achieve the required level of confidence expected in life-critical or business-critical software. They are becoming increasingly costly as, over time, they require the development and maintenance of a large body of functional and robustness tests on larger and more complex applications. Formal program verification offers a way to reduce these costs while providing stronger guarantees than testing. Addressing verification activities with formal verification is supported by upcoming standards such as do-178c for software development in avionics. In the Hi-Lite project, we pursue the integration of formal verification with testing for projects developed in C or Ada. In this paper, we discuss the conditions under which this integration is at least as strong as testing alone. We describe associated costs and benefits, using a simple banking database application as a case study

SAT-MICRO: petit mais costaud !

National audienceLe problème SAT, qui consiste à déterminer si une formule booléenne est satisfaisable, est un des problèmes NP-complets les plus célèbres et aussi un des plus étudiés. Basés initialement sur la procédure DPLL, les SAT-solvers modernes ont connu des progrès spectaculaires ces dix dernières années dans leurs performances, essentiellement grâce à deux optimisations: le retour en arrière non-chronologique et l'apprentissage par analyse des clauses conflits. Nous proposons dans cet article une étude formelle du fonctionnement de ces techniques ainsi qu'une réalisation en OCaml d'un SAT-solver, baptisé SAT-MICRO, intégrant ces optimisations ainsi qu'une mise en forme normale conjonctive paresseuse. Le fonctionnement de SAT-MICRO est décrit par un ensemble de règles d'inférence et la taille de son code, 70 lignes au total, permet d'envisager sa certification complète

Bridging the Gap between Testing and Formal Verification in Ada Development

International audienceRecent technological advances in formal deductiveverification are benefiting industry users ofprogramming language “Ada”. Mathematical proofcomplements existing test activities whilst reducingcost

Who: A Verifier for Effectful Higher-order Programs

International audienceWe present Who, a tool for verifying effectful higher-order functions. It features Effect polymorphism, higher-order logic and the possibility to reason about state in the logic, which enable highly modular specifications of generic code. Several small examples and a larger case study demonstrate its usefulness. The Who tool is intended to be used as an intermediate language for verification tools targeting ML-like programming languages