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...

Software is used in many safetyand security-critical systems. Software development is, however, an error-prone task where a software developer tries to precisely formalize in a programming language their imprecise ideas about a program. Formal methods help to reduce this problem. These methods add another layer to the software development allowing to formalize and to check desired properties of...

Verification seeks to prove or refute putative properties of a given program. Deductive verification is carried out by constructing a proof that the program satisfies its specification, whereas model checking uses state exploration to find computations where the property fails. Model checking is largely automatic but is effective only for programs defined over small state spaces. Abstraction se...

We show that any concurrent program that is amenable to compositional reasoning can be effectively translated to a sequential program. More precisely, we give a reduction from the verification problem for concurrent programs against safety specifications to the verification of sequential programs against safety specifications, where the reduction is parameterized by a set of auxiliary variables...

objectives: the aim of this study was to verify the treatment planning systems (tpss). the next aim was to validate imsure qa software for patient-specific qa in radiotherapy clinics.  material and methods: we used imsure qa software (standard imaging, v 3.5) for verification of 92 non-imrt plans (540 fields) in 10 radiotherapy clinics. to validate the imsure, dose measurement was performed in ...

Introduction: The gamma index is a known parameter for radiotherapy dose verification. Many free and commercial programs have been written for the calculation of this index. However, the verification of the results has been overlooked in many of the programs. The present study tested the validity of three gamma index calculator programs. Material and ...

We present a principled approach to the development of construction and verification tools for while-programs. Our verification tool uses Kleene algebra with tests to capture the control flow of programs and its relational semantics for their data flow. It is extended to a Morganstyle program construction tool by adding one single axiom to the algebra. Our formalisation in Isabelle/HOL makes th...

Developing provably correct programs is an incremental process that often involves a series of interactions with a program verifier. To increase the responsiveness of the program verifier during such interactions, we designed a system for fine-grained caching of verification results. The caching system uses the program’s call graph and control-flow graph to focus the verification effort on just...

Over the last years, significant progress has been made both on static and runtime program verification techniques, focusing on increasing the quality of software. Within this track, we would like to investigate how we can leverage these techniques by combining them. Questions that will be addressed are for example: what can static verification bring to runtime verification to reduce impact on ...