Teaching Program Specification and Verification Using JML and ESC/Java2

Authors:
Erik Poll
Affiliations:
Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Venue:
TFM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Teaching Formal Methods
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The paper summarises our experiences teaching formal program specification and verification using the specification language JML and the automated program verification tool ESC/Java2. This technology has proven to be mature and simple enough to introduce students to formal methods, even undergraduate students with no prior knowledge of formal methods and even only very basic knowledge of (Java) programming. However, there are some limitations on the kind of examples that can be comfortably tackled.