Software model checking Page 1 21 Software Model Checking RANJIT JHALA University of
California, San Diego and RUPAK MAJUMDAR University of California, Los Angeles We survey …

2. BACKGROUND A number of studies have suggested that 50–60% of the effort involved in
producing large software systems is devoted to quality assessment activities such as testing …

Despite the automation, users of finite-state verification tools still must be able to specify the
system requirements in the specification language of the tool. This is more challenging than …

Explicitly stated program invariants can help programmers by identifying program properties
that must be preserved when modifying code. In practice, however, these invariants are …

\begin {abstract} Multithreaded programs are notoriously prone to race conditions. Prior work
on dynamic race detectors includes fast but imprecise race detectors that report false alarms …

Finite-state verification(eg, model checking) provides a powerful means to detect errors that
are often subtle and difficult to reproduce. Nevertheless, the transition of this technology from …

Is there such a thing anymore as a software system that doesn't need to be secure? Almost
every softwarecontrolled system faces threats from potential adversaries, from Internet …

The interaction among concurrently executing threads of a program results in insidious
programming errors that are difficult to reproduce and fix. Unfortunately, the problem of …

We present a process for validating temporal safety properties of software that uses a well-
defined interface. The process requires only that the user state the property of interest. It then …

Ensuring the correctness of multithreaded programs is difficult, due to the potential for
unexpected interactions between concurrent threads. Much previous work has focused on …