Software model checking Page 1 21 Software Model Checking RANJIT JHALA University of
California, San Diego and RUPAK MAJUMDAR University of California, Los Angeles We survey …

The quality and the correctness of software are often the greatest concern in electronic
systems. Formal verification tools can provide a guarantee that a design is free of specific …

This paper discusses our methodology for formal analysis and automatic verification of
software programs. It is applicable to a large subset of the C programming language that …

Abstract interpretation techniques prove properties of programs by computing abstract
fixpoints. All such analyses suffer from the possibility of false errors. We present three …

We present Low-Level Liquid Types, a refinement type system for C based on Liquid Types.
Low-Level Liquid Types combine refinement types with three key elements to automate …

SAT-based Bounded Model Checking (BMC) has been found promising in finding deep
bugs in industry designs and scaling well with design sizes. However, it has limitations due …

An invariance assertion for a program location l is a statement that always holds at l during
execution of the program. Program invariance analyses infer invariance assertions that can …

Software verification is challenging, and auxiliary program invariants are used to improve
the effectiveness of verification approaches. For instance, the k-induction implementation in …

Modern satisfiability (SAT) solvers have become the enabling technology of many model
checkers. In this chapter, we will focus on those techniques most relevant to industrial …

Path-sensitivity is often a crucial requirement for verifying safety properties of programs. As it
is infeasible to enumerate and analyze each path individually, analyses compromise by …