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Software Verification

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Software verification is the task of checking that computer programs work correctly on any valid input. Software verification is a basic concern of computer science and has been around since the first software was written.

This chapter shows that constraint databases can be useful for software verification.

Section 26.1 describes addition bound matrices, which are useful as a constraint representation in software verification.

Section 26.2 presents the abstract interpretation approach to software verification.

The octogonal abstract domain is used as an example of abstract interpretation methods. Section 26.3 describes the constraint database approach to software verification and compares it to the abstract interpretation approach.

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Revesz, P. (2010). Software Verification. In: Introduction to Databases. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-095-3_26

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