Configurable software verification: Concretizing the convergence of model checking and program analysis
Beyer D, Henzinger TA, Théoduloz G. 2007. Configurable software verification: Concretizing the convergence of model checking and program analysis. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 4590, 504–518.
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Beyer, Dirk;
Henzinger, Thomas AISTA 
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Théoduloz, Grégory
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In automatic software verification, we have observed a theoretical convergence of model checking and program analysis. In practice, however, model checkers are still mostly concerned with precision, e.g., the removal of spurious counterexamples; for this purpose they build and refine reachability trees. Lattice-based program analyzers, on the other hand, are primarily concerned with efficiency. We designed an algorithm and built a tool that can be configured to perform not only a purely tree-based or a purely lattice-based analysis, but offers many intermediate settings that have not been evaluated before. The algorithm and tool take one or more abstract interpreters, such as a predicate abstraction and a shape analysis, and configure their execution and interaction using several parameters. Our experiments show that such customization may lead to dramatic improvements in the precision-efficiency spectrum.
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2007-07-02
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Springer
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This research was supported in part by the grant SFU/PRG 06-3, and by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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4590
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504 - 518
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CAV: Computer Aided Verification
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Beyer D, Henzinger TA, Théoduloz G. Configurable software verification: Concretizing the convergence of model checking and program analysis. In: Vol 4590. Springer; 2007:504-518. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73368-3_51
Beyer, D., Henzinger, T. A., & Théoduloz, G. (2007). Configurable software verification: Concretizing the convergence of model checking and program analysis (Vol. 4590, pp. 504–518). Presented at the CAV: Computer Aided Verification, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73368-3_51
Beyer, Dirk, Thomas A Henzinger, and Grégory Théoduloz. “Configurable Software Verification: Concretizing the Convergence of Model Checking and Program Analysis,” 4590:504–18. Springer, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73368-3_51.
D. Beyer, T. A. Henzinger, and G. Théoduloz, “Configurable software verification: Concretizing the convergence of model checking and program analysis,” presented at the CAV: Computer Aided Verification, 2007, vol. 4590, pp. 504–518.
Beyer D, Henzinger TA, Théoduloz G. 2007. Configurable software verification: Concretizing the convergence of model checking and program analysis. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 4590, 504–518.
Beyer, Dirk, et al. Configurable Software Verification: Concretizing the Convergence of Model Checking and Program Analysis. Vol. 4590, Springer, 2007, pp. 504–18, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73368-3_51.
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