A Heuristic Approach to Program Verification.
Abstract
The authors present various heuristic techniques for use in proving the correctness of computer programs. The techniques are designed to obtain automatically the inductive assertions attached to the loops of the program which previously required human understanding of the program performance. The authors distinguish between two general approaches: one in which the inductive assertion is obtained by analyzing predicates which are known to be true at the entrances and exits of the loop (top-down approach), and another in which we generate the inductive assertion directly from the statements of the loop (bottom-up approach). (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0764272
Entities
People
- Shmuel M. Katz
- Zohar Manna
Organizations
- Stanford University