Proving the Correctness of Program Transformations with Abstract Execution and REFINITY

Summary. Abstract Execution (AE) is a new program analysis technique for automatically proving second-order properties about programs. It is based on the symbolic execution of abstract programs with second-order symbolic stores.

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Report about the 1st International HacKeYthon 2018

Two weeks ago, at the 6th and 7th of December, 2018, the 1st International HacKeYthon took place in the rooms of the KIT in Karlsruhe, Germany. In five groups consisting of 3 to 4 participants each we worked on small projects contributing to the overall good of the KeY system. The projects were addressing properties such as usability and performance of the system which are frequently ignored or postponed since their direct value for research is limited.

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KeY’s SED Successfully Applied in an Industrial Setting

The Symbolic Execution Debugger (SED) is a debugging and visualization tool based on KeY’s symbolic execution engine that can be used, just like a standard debugger, without any specialist knowledge. Now, the SED has successfully been applied by Aniket Kulkarni from Tata Consultancy Services in the validation of an industrial software component. He concludes that the “SED tool is useful for applying Symbolic Execution techniques as visual feedback is given to the developer”.

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