Genetic improvement (GI) uses automated search to find improved versions of existing
software. We present a comprehensive survey of this nascent field of research with a focus …

Behavioral interface specification languages provide formal code-level annotations, such as
preconditions, postconditions, invariants, and assertions that allow programmers to express …

Testing involves examining the behaviour of a system in order to discover potential faults.
Given an input for a system, the challenge of distinguishing the corresponding desired …

Smart Contracts have gained tremendous popularity in the past few years, to the point that
billions of US Dollars are currently exchanged every day through such technology. However …

Model‐based testing (MBT) relies on models of a system under test and/or its environment to
derive test cases for the system. This paper discusses the process of MBT and defines a …

In program debugging, finding a failing run is only the first step; what about correcting the
fault? Can we automate the second task as well as the first? The AutoFix-E tool …

The ability to reverse-engineer models of software behaviour is valuable for a wide range of
software maintenance, validation and verification tasks. Current reverse-engineering …

Automatic programming has seen increasing popularity due to the emergence of tools like
GitHub Copilot which rely on Large Language Models (LLMs). At the same time …

A zap is a two-round, witness-indistinguishable protocol in which the first round, consisting
of a message from the verifier to the prover, can be fixed" once-and-for-all" and applied to …

In this paper we describe a verification system for multi-agent programs. This is the first
comprehensive approach to the verification of programs developed using programming …