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Spec# is research programming system that aims to provide programmers with a higher degree of rigor than in common languages today. The Spec# language extends the object-oriented .NET language C#, adding features like non-null types, pre- and postconditions, and object invariants. The language has been designed to support an incremental path to using more specifications. Some of the new features of Spec# are checked by a static type checker, some give rise to compiler-emitted run-time checks, and all can be subjected to the Spec# static program verifier. The program verifier generates verification conditions from Spec# programs and then uses an automatic theorem prover to analyze these.
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M. Leino, K.R. (2007). Specifying and Verifying Programs in Spec#. In: Virbitskaite, I., Voronkov, A. (eds) Perspectives of Systems Informatics. PSI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4378. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70881-0_3
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