Publication detail

Automated Formal Verification of Programs with Dynamic Data Structures Using State-of-the-Art Tools

ERLEBACH, P., VOJNAR, T.

Original Title

Automated Formal Verification of Programs with Dynamic Data Structures Using State-of-the-Art Tools

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This paper investigates capabilities of two advanced state-of-the-art tools-namely Pale and TVLA-for automated formal verification of programs manipulating unbounded dynamic data structures. We consider verification of operations dealing with binary search trees over which we want to verify the basic correctness of pointer manipulations (no null pointer dereferences, etc.) as well as the sortedness requirement of binary search trees. Unlike in other works, we want to verify the full sortedness requirement, i.e. that all nodes in the left subtree of a node n are smaller than n, and all nodes in the right subtree of n are bigger than n (and not just the relation between a node and its direct subnodes). For the needs of verifying this property in the TVLA tool, we provide a new kind of instrumentation predicate that allows one to handle such a property.

Keywords

automated formal verification, TVLA, PALE, full sortedness, insertBST

Authors

ERLEBACH, P., VOJNAR, T.

RIV year

2005

Released

19. 4. 2005

Location

Ostrava

ISBN

80-86840-09-3

Book

Proceedings of 8th International Conference ISIM'05 Information System Implementation and Modeling

Pages from

219

Pages to

226

Pages count

8

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT21471,
  author="Pavel {Erlebach} and Tomáš {Vojnar}",
  title="Automated Formal Verification of Programs with Dynamic Data Structures Using State-of-the-Art Tools",
  booktitle="Proceedings of 8th International Conference ISIM'05 Information System Implementation and Modeling",
  year="2005",
  pages="219--226",
  address="Ostrava",
  isbn="80-86840-09-3"
}