Protocol and typestate analyses often report some sequences of statements ending at a
program point P that needs to be scrutinized, since P may be erroneous or imprecisely …

Static analysis tools help to detect programming errors but generate a large number of
alarms. Repositioning of alarms is recently proposed technique to reduce the number of …

Static analysis tools help to detect common pro-gramming errors but generate a large
number of false positives. Moreover, when applied to evolving software systems, around …

Modern software verification tools are moving towards incremental verification of program
properties to ensure safety of evolving software systems. These tools analyze each and …

Formal specification and verification methods provide ways to describe requirements
precisely and to check whether the requirements are satisfied by the design or the …

Formal verification techniques are widely used for detecting design flaws in software
systems. Formal verification can be done by transforming an already implemented source …

In this chapter, we first introduce static analysis and alarms generated by static analysis tools
(Section 1.1). We then describe the problem of large number of alarms and their …

K-limited path-sensitive interval domain is an abstract domain that has been proposed for
precise and scalable analysis of large software systems. The domain maintains variables' …

Program Verification using Small Models Page 1 Program Verification using Small Models
Nakshatra Gupta, Prajkta Kodavade, Shrawan Kumar, Abhisekh Sankaran, Akshatha Shenoy …

In this thesis, we present efficient techniques for satisfiability modulo theoriesbased model
checking (SMT-based MC) of software where the model is too large or complicated to …