Software has become an integral part of our everyday lives, and so is our reliance on his
correct functioning. Systems software lies at the heart of computer systems, consequently …

This book presents reflections on the occasion of 20 years on the KeY project that focuses
on deductive software verification. Since the inception of the KeY project two decades ago …

A little more than 20 years ago, a group of researchers started out with what became the
KeY project. Back then, KeY was one of the early efforts in an emerging community, whose …

Deductive software verification aims at formally verifying that all possible behaviors of a
given program satisfy formally defined, possibly complex properties, where the verification …

Reliability is critical for system software, such as OS kernels, mobile browsers, embedded
systems and cloud systems. The correctness of these programs, especially for security, is …

Deductive Software Verification is a formal technique for reasoning about properties of
programs. It has been around1 for nearly 40 years, however, a number of developments …

Extending the Reach and Power of Deductive Program Verification Page 1 Vladimir
Klebanov Extending the Reach and Power of Deductive Program Verification Dissertation …

VCC is a verification environment for software written in C. VCC takes a program (annotated
with function contracts, state assertions, and type invariants) and attempts to prove that these …

There has been considerable progress in the domain of software verification over the last
few years. This advancement has been driven, to a large extent, by the emergence of …

In this dissertation we present a design for verification (DFV) approach that embeds
intentions of developers into software and makes software systems amenable to automated …