April 16, 2018 Journal article Open Access

Modularity for Decidability of Deductive Verification with Applications to Distributed Systems

Marcelo Taube; Giuliano Losa; Kenneth L. McMillan; Oded Padon; Mooly Sagiv; Sharon Shoam; James R.Wilcox; Doug Woos

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Abstract of the paper:

Proof automation can substantially increase productivity in formal verification of complex systems. However, unpredictablility of automated provers in handling quantified formulas presents a major hurdle to usability of these tools. We propose to solve this problem not by improving the provers, but by using a modular proof methodology that allows us to produce \emph{decidable} verification conditions. Decidability greatly improves predictability of proof automation, resulting in a more practical verification approach. We apply this methodology to develop verified implementations of distributed protocols, demonstrating its effectiveness.