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Dafny: an automatic program verifier for functional correctness. (English) Zbl 1253.68095

Clarke, Edmund M. (ed.) et al., Logic for programming, artificial intelligence, and reasoning. 16th international conference, LPAR-16, Dakar, Senegal, April 25 – May 1, 2010. Revised selected papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-17510-7/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6355. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 348-370 (2010).
Summary: Traditionally, the full verification of a program’s functional correctness has been obtained with pen and paper or with interactive proof assistants, whereas only reduced verification tasks, such as extended static checking, have enjoyed the automation offered by satisfiability-modulo-theories (SMT) solvers. More recently, powerful SMT solvers and well-designed program verifiers are starting to break that tradition, thus reducing the effort involved in doing full verification.
This paper gives a tour of the language and verifier Dafny, which has been used to verify the functional correctness of a number of challenging pointer-based programs. The paper describes the features incorporated in Dafny, illustrating their use by small examples and giving a taste of how they are coded for an SMT solver. As a larger case study, the paper shows the full functional specification of the Schorr-Waite algorithm in Dafny.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1203.68004].

MSC:

68N30 Mathematical aspects of software engineering (specification, verification, metrics, requirements, etc.)
68Q60 Specification and verification (program logics, model checking, etc.)
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