FSE 2026
Sun 5 - Thu 9 July 2026 Montreal, Canada
Thu 9 Jul 2026 15:00 - 15:10 at MB 3.435 - Verification 2 Chair(s): Shiva Nejati

Runtime verification (RV) now scales for testing in thousands of open-source Java projects, helping find hundreds of bugs by monitoring test executions against formal specifications (specs). The popular Python ecosystem could use such benefits. But, current Python RV tools are limited to a domain or spec logic, or they are slow. We present PyMOP, a generic, extensible, and more efficient Python RV tool. PyMOP supports five logics, implements five monitoring algorithms, ships with 81 specs, and supports three instrumentation strategies. On 48,090 unit tests in 839 GitHub projects, we find mainly that (i) PyMOP is up to 419.23x faster than two recent dynamic analysis tools; (ii) Expensive instrumentation is a main cause of RV’s runtime overhead for Python; and (iii) 84 of 156 bugs that PyMOP found were confirmed or fixed by developers. PyMOP’s genericness and efficiency position it well as an excellent platform for the next advances on RV for Python. PyMOP is at https://github.com/SoftEngResearch/pymop and a video demo is at https://pymop.zhuohangshen.com/demo.

Thu 9 Jul

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14:00 - 15:30
Verification 2Tool Demonstrations / Ideas, Visions and Reflections / Research Papers at MB 3.435
Chair(s): Shiva Nejati University of Ottawa
14:00
20m
Talk
Agentic Verification of Software Systems
Research Papers
Haoxin Tu National University of Singapore, Huan Zhao National University of Singapore, Yahui Song Standard Chartered Bank, Mehtab Zafar National University of Singapore, Ruijie Meng CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore
Pre-print
14:20
20m
Talk
DiverFPS: Generating Diverse Solutions for Floating-Point SMT Formulas
Research Papers
Shuangyu Lyu Beihang University, Chuan Luo Beihang University, Ruizhi Shi Beihang University, Zhuo Su Beihang University, Chunming Hu Beihang University
14:40
10m
Talk
The Watermark Paradox: How Provenance Verification Paves the Road to Camouflaged Backdoors
Ideas, Visions and Reflections
Haoyi Zhang Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Huaijin Ran Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Kisub Kim DGIST, Xunzhu Tang University of Luxembourg
DOI
14:50
10m
Talk
HarnessForge: Automated Extraction of Verification Tasks from Industry-Scale Software Projects
Tool Demonstrations
Dirk Beyer LMU Munich, Po-Chun Chien LMU Munich, Bo-Yuan Huang Intel, USA, Nian-Ze Lee National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Thomas Lemberger LMU Munich
Pre-print Media Attached
15:00
10m
Talk
PyMOP: A Runtime Verification Tool for Python
Tool Demonstrations
Zhuohang Shen Cornell University, Mohammed S. Yaseen Independent Researcher, Kevin Guan Cornell University, Denini Silva Federal University of Pernambuco, Marcelo d'Amorim North Carolina State University, Owolabi Legunsen Cornell University
15:10
20m
Talk
Property Refinement in Linear Temporal Logic: Formal Semantics and Algorithms for Software Verification
Research Papers
Luca Brodo Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt, Giuseppe Scalora Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, Stefan Henkler Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt
File Attached