An incremental approach to scope-bounded checking using a lightweight formal method

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5850 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 757-772

  Shao, Danhua ^a   Khurshid, Sarfraz ^a   Perry, Dewayne E ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Alloy; Computation graph; First order logic; Lightweight formal method; SAT; Scope bounded checking; White box testing

Indexed keywords

CODE SEGMENTS; CONSTRAINT SOLVERS; EXECUTION PATHS; FIRST ORDER LOGIC; HEAVY WORKLOADS; INCREMENTAL APPROACH; INCREMENTAL CHECKING; KEY ISSUES; LIGHTWEIGHT FORMAL METHOD; LIGHTWEIGHT FORMAL METHODS; NON-TRIVIAL PROGRAMS; RELATIONAL CONSTRAINT; SPEED-UPS; SUB-PROBLEMS; WHITE-BOX TESTING;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; FORMAL LOGIC;

FORMAL METHODS;

EID: 70649097225     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05089-3_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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