Programmers learning Rust struggle to understand ownership types, Rust's core mechanism
for ensuring memory safety without garbage collection. This paper describes our attempt to …

Alloy is a textual modeling language for structures and behaviors of software designs. One
of the reasons for Alloy to become a popular light-weight formal method is its support for …

Background: Many programming environments include automated feedback in the form of
hints to help novices learn autonomously. Some experimental studies investigated the …

Writing declarative models has numerous benefits, ranging from automated reasoning and
correction of design-level properties before systems are built, to automated testing and …

Model finding, as embodied by SAT solvers and similar tools, is used widely, both in
embedding settings and as a tool in its own right. For instance, tools like Alloy target SAT to …

Property-based testing (PBT) is a testing methodology where users write executable formal
specifications of software components and an automated harness checks these …

On a growing number of campuses, data science programs offer introductory courses that
include a non-trivial amount of programming. The content of such courses overlaps that of …

Platforms to support novices learning to program are often accompanied by automated next-
step hints that guide them towards correct solutions. Many of those approaches are data …

Writing declarative models has numerous benefits, ranging from automated reasoning and
correction of design-level properties before systems are built, to automated testing and …

Finite model finders give users the ability to specify properties of a system in mathematical
logic and then automatically find concrete examples, called solutions, that satisfy the …