Agent-based distributed software verification

Authors:
Chris Hunter;Peter Robinson;Paul Strooper
Affiliations:
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Venue:
ACSC '05 Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Australasian conference on Computer Science - Volume 38
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Despite decades of research, the takeup of formal methods for developing provably correct software in industry remains slow. One reason for this is the high cost of proof construction, an activity that, due to the complexity of the required proofs, is typically carried out using interactive theorem provers. In this paper we propose an agent-oriented architecture for interactive theorem proving with the aim of reducing the user interactions (and thus the cost) of constructing software verification proofs. We describe a prototype implementation of our architecture and discuss its application to a small, but non-trivial case study.