Software Synthesis and Verification

Course code: ITI8531
Link: http://courses.cs.ttu.ee/pages/ITI0130

Lecturer: prof. Jüri Vain
Contact: juri.vain ätt ttu.ee, ICT-418

Lab assistants: Evelin Halling, Jishu Quin
Contact: evelin.halling ätt ttu.ee,

Previous courses: 2014

Time and place

Lectures: Thursdays 10:00, ICT-A2
Labs: Thursdays 12:00, ICT-402 - Evelin Halling, Jishu Quin

/*Lab on March 16 will be cancelled due to the sickness of lab instructor.. */

Lecture plan

• Lecture 1: Introduction
• Lecture 2: Modelling state transition systems
• Lecture 3: Temporal logic CTL*
• Lecture 4: CTL model checking
• Lecture 5: Timed automata and TCTL model checking
• Practicing for Test 1 (see Exercises 1 below)
• Test 1: Model checking (16.03.2017)
  • Exercises: Model checking
• Lecture 7: Program specifications
• Lecture 8: Program synthesis I
• Lecture 9: Program synthesis II
• Test 2 (13.04.2017): Program synthesis
• Lecture 11: Proving partial correctness of programs
• Lecture 12.1: Proof techniques (1): derived rules, backwards proof, annotations
• Lecture 12.2: Proof techniques (2): Array- and FOR-rule
• Lecture 13: Proving total correctness of while-programs
• Test 3 (05.05.2016): Deductive verification of sequential programs
• Lecture 15: Non-deterministic programs
• Lecture 16: Parallel programs with shared variables
• Lecture 17: Parallel programs with message passing
• Lecture 18: Program synthesis
• Test 3 (26.05.2016): Deductive verification of non-deterministic and parallel programs

Labs

• Lab 1 -2: Introduction to modelling in UPPAAL
  • UPPAAL website
  • Small tutorial on UPPAAL
  • Tutorial on UPPAAL
  • Slides: UPPAAL introduction
  • Model: Lamp example
  • Query: Lamp example
• Lab 3: Introduction to modelling in UPPAAL
  • Assignment: Coffee Machine
  • Slides: Example and explanation
  • Model: Coffee machine
  • Query: Coffee machine
• Lab 4: UPPAAL
  • Assignment: Reader-Writer (unreliable) communication protocol
  • Slides: Example and explanation
• Lab 5: UPPAAL
  • Assignment: Leader election protocol
  • Slides: Explanation
  • The Leader Election Protocol (IEEE 1394)
  • Verification of a Leader Election Protocol: Formal Methods Applied to IEEE 1394
• Lab 6: UPPAAL
  • Homework defenses

Exercises

• Exercises 1: Model checking (explicit and symbolic state)
• Exercises 2: Partial correctness of WHILE-programs
  • Example 1: Partial correctness of WHILE-loop
  • Example 2: Partial correctness of FOR-loop
• Partial correctness of non-deterministic and parallel programs
  • Exercises 3.1: Partial correctness of non-deterministic and parallel programs
  • Exercises 3.2: Partial correctness of non-deterministic and parallel programs NEW!!!

Resources

• Formal Methods Europe
• Genzen's proof system for 1st order logic:
• HL proof rules for sequential and parallel programs:
• Some guidlines how to find invariants
• Mike Gordon's lecture notes on Hoare logic [1]