Efficient software model checking of data structure properties

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 363-382

  Darga, Paul T ^a   Boyapati, Chandrasekhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Program analysis; Software model checking

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROGRAM; PROGRAM ANALYSIS; RED-BLACK TREE IMPLEMENTATION; SOFTWARE MODEL CHECKING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DECISION TREES; ERROR ANALYSIS; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 34248205052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1167473.1167504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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