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A safety property asserts that some “bad thing” does not happen during execution. In this chapter, we consider invariance properties, an important class of safety properties. We discuss methods for proving that a program satisfies an invariance property and show how these methods can guide in the development of programs.
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Schneider, F.B. (1997). Safety Properties: Invariance. In: On Concurrent Programming. Graduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1830-2_6
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