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2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Specifying and Verifying Programs in Spec#
Author : K. Rustan M. Leino
Published in: Perspectives of Systems Informatics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Spec# is research programming system that aims to provide programmers with a higher degree of rigor than in common languages today. The Spec# language extends the object-oriented .NET language C#, adding features like non-null types, pre- and postconditions, and object invariants. The language has been designed to support an incremental path to using more specifications. Some of the new features of Spec# are checked by a static type checker, some give rise to compiler-emitted run-time checks, and all can be subjected to the Spec# static program verifier. The program verifier generates verification conditions from Spec# programs and then uses an automatic theorem prover to analyze these.