VerifyThis 2019: A Program Verification Competition (Extended Report)

Claire Dross, Carlo A. Furia, Marieke Huisman, Rosemary Monahan, Peter Müller

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Abstract

VerifyThis is a series of program verification competitions that emphasize the human aspect: participants tackle the verification of detailed behavioral properties---something that lies beyond the capabilities of fully automatic verification, and requires instead human expertise to suitably encode programs, specifications, and invariants. This paper describes the 8th edition of VerifyThis, which took place at ETAPS 2019 in Prague. Thirteen teams entered the competition, which consisted of three verification challenges and spanned two days of work. The report analyzes how the participating teams fared on these challenges, reflects on what makes a verification challenge more or less suitable for the typical VerifyThis participants, and outlines the difficulties of comparing the work of teams using wildly different verification approaches in a competition focused on the human aspect.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherArXiv.org
Number of pages19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Aug 2020

Keywords

  • cs.LO

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