Static formal verification techniques are an e↵ective method for verification of software. They exploit the advantages of formal methods to statically prove that the implementation of a program satisfies its formally written specification. This makes formal verification especially powerful: any execution of the program is guaranteed to behave correctly. Therefore, these techniques are especiall...

Establishing a-priori mission performance guarantees is crucial if autonomous robots are to be used with confidence in missions where failure could incur high costs in life and property damage. Automatic mission software verification, in addition to simulation and experimental benchmarking, is a key component of the solution for establishing performance guarantees. This component requires autom...

In this work we present a methodology for formal modeling and verification of component based software systems. The methodology is based on software architecture, components, and reuse of Petri Nets models. With this process, we are contributing for the visual composition, verification, and formal validation of software. We also show an example of the application of this methodology into two di...

Verification of software has received a lot of attentions of the software engineering community, specially modular verification of component-based software. However, to realize such an ideal component-based software paradigm, one of the key issues is to ensure that those separately specified and implemented components do not conflict to each other when composed the component consistency issue. ...

Dynamic software model checking consists of adapting model checking into a form of systematic testing that is applicable to industrial-size software. Over the last two decades, dozens of tools following this paradigm have been developed for checking concurrent and data-driven software. Compared to traditional software testing, dynamic software model checking provides better coverage, but is mor...

Software product lines are widely used to achieve high reuse of code artifacts for similar software products. While there are many efficient techniques to implement product lines, such as feature-oriented programming, the analysis and verification of product lines got only little attention so far. But as product lines are increasingly used in safety critical scenarios, efficient verification te...

The 5th Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP 2016) continues the tradition of a thorough comparative evaluation of fully-automatic software verifiers. This report presents the results of the competition and includes a special section that describes how SV-COMP ensures that the experiments are reliably executed, precisely measured, and organized such that the results can be reproduced l...

Verification activities mandated for critical software are essential to achieve the required level of confidence expected in life-critical or business-critical software. They are becoming increasingly costly as, over time, they require the development and maintenance of a large body of functional and robustness tests on larger and more complex applications. Formal program verification offers a ...

We consider the problem of automating the verification of distributed control software relying on publish-subscribe middleware. In this scenario, the main challenge is that software correctness depends intrinsically on correct usage of middleware components, but structured models of such components might not be available for analysis, e.g., because they are too large and complex to be described...

Dynamic software model checking consists of adapting model checking into a form of systematic testing that is applicable to industrialsize software. Over the last two decades, dozens of tools following this paradigm have been developed for checking concurrent and data-driven software. Compared to traditional software testing, dynamic software model checking provides better coverage, but is more...