Social processes and proofs of theorems and programs
Communications of the ACM
Extended static checking for Java
PLDI '02 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
Extended static checking for haskell
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Haskell
Reasoning about comprehensions with first-order SMT solvers
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Teaching Program Specification and Verification Using JML and ESC/Java2
TFM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Teaching Formal Methods
A reachability predicate for analyzing low-level software
TACAS'07 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems
The spec# programming system: an overview
CASSIS'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Construction and Analysis of Safe, Secure, and Interoperable Smart Devices
ESC/Java2: uniting ESC/Java and JML
CASSIS'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Construction and Analysis of Safe, Secure, and Interoperable Smart Devices
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Automated software verification is an active field of research which has made enormous progress both in theoretical and practical aspects. In recent years, an important effort has been put into applying these techniques on top of mainstream programming languages. These languages typically provide powerful features such as reflection, aliasing and polymorphism which are handy for practitioners but, in contrast, make verification a real challenge. The Pest programming language, on the other hand, was conceived with verifiability as one of its main design drivers. Although its main purpose is to serve as a test bed for new language features, its bare-bones syntax and strong support for annotations suggested early on in its development that it could also serve as a teaching tool for first-year undergraduate students. Developing an Eclipse plug-in for Pest proved to be both cost-effective and a key part to its adoption in the classroom. In this paper, we report on this experience.