CAREER: Fast Provers for Extended Static Checking of Software

职业：用于软件扩展静态检查的快速证明者

• 批准号: 0237422
• 负责人: Cesare Tinelli
• 金额: $ 40.46万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0237422&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Fast; Provers; Extended; Static

ABSTRACT0237422Cesare TinelliUniv of IowaThe unifying research and education theme of this project is improving the reliability of software by cost-effective automated reasoning techniques and tools. The project concentrates on extendedstatic checking (ESC), a powerful form of static checking aimed at detecting insidious run-time errors such as null-dereferencing and out-of-bounds errors. Because of its limited goal of just uncoveringas many run-time errors as possible, ESC is easier to automate effectively than full software verification. However, its wide adoption is presently hindered by the low speed of existing checkers.The overall research objective of this project is to develop new automated reasoning techniques and tools for ESC, with the expectation that they will make ESC an attractive and cost-effective technology for software development. Routine use of ESC will help uncover more errors during the debugging phase of the software life cycle, leading to a more reliable final product.The overall education objective of the project is to expose students to specification/verification techniques and tools that have proved effective with real-word problems. A new generation of professionalsbetter prepared and predisposed to the use of these tools will facilitate their adoption by the software industry, making it possible for our society to reap the benefits of more reliable software.

爱荷华州统一的研究和教育主题的Abstract0237422Cesare Tinelliuniv是通过具有成本效益的自动推理技术和工具来提高软件的可靠性。该项目集中于扩展静止检查（ESC），这是一种旨在检测阴险运行时错误（例如无效的限制和局外错误）的强大形式的静态检查形式。由于其仅发现许多运行时错误的目标有限，因此ESC比完整的软件验证更容易自动化自动化。但是，目前，现有调查器的低速阻碍了其广泛的采用。该项目的总体研究目标是开发ESC的新自动化推理技术和工具，并期望它们使ESC成为一种有吸引力且具有成本效益的软件开发技术。 ESC的常规使用将有助于在软件生命周期的调试阶段发现更多错误，从而导致更可靠的最终产品。该项目的整体教育目标是使学生了解已证明在现实问题问题上有效的规范/验证技术和工具。准备并倾向于使用这些工具的新一代专业人士将有助于软件行业的采用，从而使我们的社会有可能获得更可靠的软件的好处。