VCC is an industrial-strength verification environment for low-level concurrent system code
written in C. VCC takes a program (annotated with function contracts, state assertions, and …

Separation logic is a program logic for reasoning about programs that manipulate pointer
data structures. We describe Smallfoot, a tool for checking certain lightweight separation …

Many state-based specification languages, including the Java Modeling Language (JML),
contain at their core specification constructs familiar to most undergraduates: eg, assertions …

Abstract The Spec# programming system [4] is a new attempt to increase the quality of
general purpose, industrial software. Using old wisdom, we propose the use of …

VCC is an industrial-strength verification suite for the formal verification of concurrent, low-
level C code. It is being developed by Microsoft Research, Redmond, and the European …

Ownership is a powerful concept to structure the object store and to control aliasing and
modifications of objects. This paper presents an ownership type system for a Java-like …

This comprehensive and highly readable textbook teaches how to formally reason about
computer programs using an incremental approach and the verification-aware programming …

Security is an important quality aspect of modern open software systems. However, it is
challenging to keep such systems secure because of evolution. Security evolution can only …

Ownership simplifies reasoning about object-oriented programs by controlling aliasing and
modifications of objects. Several type systems have been proposed to express and check …

The atomic block, a synchronization primitive provided to programmers in transactional
memory systems, has the potential to greatly ease the development of concurrent software …