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The First Thirty Years: Experience with Software Verification

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 4966))

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The author started systematic testing in the early seventies, formed LDRA Ltd in 1975, and having stayed in business ever since has acquired considerable experience. The verification tool market is small, mainly embedded systems, and strongly customer driven. Other markets still believe that black-box testing does the job!

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Bernhard Beckert Reiner Hähnle

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Hennell, M. (2008). The First Thirty Years: Experience with Software Verification. In: Beckert, B., Hähnle, R. (eds) Tests and Proofs. TAP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4966. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79124-9_1

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