An Introduction to Proving the Correctness of Programs
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Symbolic execution and program testing
Communications of the ACM
Alloy: a lightweight object modelling notation
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Design and verification of secure systems
SOSP '81 Proceedings of the eighth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
High Integrity Software: The SPARK Approach to Safety and Security
High Integrity Software: The SPARK Approach to Safety and Security
DART: directed automated random testing
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
CUTE: a concolic unit testing engine for C
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Decision Procedures: An Algorithmic Point of View
Decision Procedures: An Algorithmic Point of View
Proceedings of the the 7th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Generalized symbolic execution for model checking and testing
TACAS'03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems
CAV'07 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computer aided verification
TACAS'08/ETAPS'08 Proceedings of the Theory and practice of software, 14th international conference on Tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems
Pex: white box test generation for .NET
TAP'08 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tests and proofs
KLEE: unassisted and automatic generation of high-coverage tests for complex systems programs
OSDI'08 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
APLAS'05 Proceedings of the Third Asian conference on Programming Languages and Systems
Enhancing spark's contract checking facilities using symbolic execution
SIGAda '11 Proceedings of the 2011 ACM annual international conference on Special interest group on the ada programming language
A symbolic analysis framework for static analysis of imperative programming languages
Journal of Systems and Software
Efficient symbolic execution of value-based data structures for critical systems
NFM'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on NASA Formal Methods
An approach to model checking ada programs
Ada-Europe'12 Proceedings of the 17th Ada-Europe international conference on Reliable Software Technologies
Explicating symbolic execution (xSymExe): an evidence-based verification framework
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
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SPARK, a subset of Ada for engineering safety and security-critical systems, is designed for verification and includes a software contract language for specifying functional properties of procedures. Even though SPARK and its static analysis components are beneficial and easy to use, its contract language is almost never used due to the burdens the associated tool support imposes on developers. In this paper, we present: (a) SymExe techniques for checking software contracts in embedded critical systems, and (b) Bakar Kiasan, a tool that implements these techniques in an integrated development environment for SPARK. We describe a methodology for using Bakar Kiasan that provides significant increases in automation, usability, and functionality over existing Spark tools, and we present results from experiments on its application to industrial examples.