* ICSE 2018 *
Sun 27 May - Sun 3 June 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
Fri 1 Jun 2018 15:00 - 15:20 at H1 room - Inference and Invariants Chair(s): Robert Feldt

Despite recent advances, software verification remains challenging. To solve hard verification tasks, we need to leverage not just one but several different verifiers employing different technologies. To this end, we need to exchange information between verifiers. Conditional model checking was proposed as a solution to exactly this problem: The idea is to let the first verifier output a condition which describes the state space that it successfully verified and to instruct the second verifier to verify the yet unverified state space using this condition. However, most verifiers do not understand conditions as input.

In this paper, we propose the usage of an off-the-shelf construction of a conditional verifier from a given traditional verifier and a reducer. The reducer takes as input the program to be verified and the condition, and outputs a residual program whose paths cover the unverified state space described by the condition. As a proof of concept, we designed and implemented one particular reducer and composed three conditional model checkers from the three best verifiers at SV-COMP 2017. We defined a set of claims and experimentally evaluated their validity. All experimental data and results are available for replication.

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Fri 1 Jun

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14:00 - 15:30
Inference and InvariantsTechnical Papers at H1 room
Chair(s): Robert Feldt Chalmers University of Technology
14:00
20m
Talk
Inferring and Asserting Distributed System Invariants
Technical Papers
Stewart Grant , Hendrik Cech , Ivan Beschastnikh University of British Columbia
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14:20
20m
Talk
DroidStar: Callback Typestates for Android Classes
Technical Papers
Arjun Radhakrishna Microsoft, Nicholas Lewchenko , Shawn Meier , Sergio Mover University of Colorado Boulder, Krishna Chaitanya Sripada , Damien Zufferey MPI-SWS, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang University of Colorado Boulder, Pavol Cerny University of Colorado Boulder
14:40
20m
Talk
Debugging with Intelligence via Probabilistic Inference
Technical Papers
Zhaogui Xu Nanjing University, China, Shiqing Ma Purdue University, USA, Xiangyu Zhang Purdue University, Shuofei Zhu Nanjing University, China, Baowen Xu
15:00
20m
Talk
Reducer-Based Construction of Conditional Verifiers
Technical Papers
Pre-print File Attached
15:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
Technical Papers