Thanks to the rapid progress and growing complexity of quantum algorithms, correctness of
quantum programs has become a major concern. Pioneering research over the past years …

Deductive program verification is a post-hoc quality assurance technique following the
design-by-contract paradigm where correctness of the program is proven only after it was …

Many software applications contain confidential information, which has to be prevented from
leaking through unauthorized access. To enforce confidentiality, there are language-based …

In recent years, research on artificial intelligence (AI) has made great progress. AI-tools are
getting better in simulating human reasoning and behavior every day. In this paper, we …

Recently, the rise of code-centric Large Language Models (LLMs) has reshaped the
software engineering world with low-barrier tools like Copilot that can easily generate code …

Abstract Correctness-by-construction (CbC) is a refinement-based methodology to
incrementally create formally correct programs. Programs are constructed using refinement …

The correctness-by-construction paradigm allows developers to derive formally correct
programs from a pair of first-order precondition and postcondition. Although tool support has …

The automatic algorithm programming model can increase the dependability and efficiency
of algorithm program development, including specification generation, program refinement …

In order to develop trustworthy distributed systems, verification techniques and formal
methods, including lightweight and practical approaches, have been employed to certify the …

Software product lines (SPLs) are a technique to efficiently develop families of software
products. Code is implemented in functional features which are composed to individual …