Hardware and Software, Verification and Testing: Third International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2007, Haifa, Israel, October 23-25, 2007, Proceedings

by Yorav, Karen

• ISBN13: 9783540779643
• ISBN10: 3540779647
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2007, held in Haifa, Israel, in October 2007.The 15 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are organized in topical tracks on hardware verification, model checking, dynamic hardware verification, merging formal and testing, formal verification for software and software testing.

Table of Contents

Invited Talks
Simulation vs. Formal: Absorb What Is Useful; Reject What Is Useless	p. 1
Scaling Commercial Verification to Larger Systems	p. 8
From Hardware Verification to Software Verification: Re-use and Re-learn	p. 14
Where Do Bugs Come from? (Abstract)	p. 16
HVC Award
Symbolic Execution and Model Checking for Testing	p. 17
Hardware Verification
On the Characterization of Until as a Fixed Point Under Clocked Semantics	p. 19
Reactivity in SystemC Transaction-Level Models	p. 34
Model Checking
Verifying Parametrised Hardware Designs Via Counter Automata	p. 51
How Fast and Fat Is Your Probabilistic Model Checker? An Experimental Performance Comparison	p. 69
Dynamic Hardware Verification
Constraint Patterns and Search Procedures for CP-Based Random Test Generation	p. 86
Using Virtual Coverage to Hit Hard-To-Reach Events	p. 104
Merging Formal and Testing
Test Case Generation for Ultimately Periodic Paths	p. 120
Dynamic Testing Via Automata Learning	p. 136
Formal Verification for Software
On the Architecture of System Verification Environments	p. 153
Exploiting Shared Structure in Software Verification Conditions	p. 169
Delayed Nondeterminism in Model Checking Embedded Systems Assembly Code	p. 185
A Complete Bounded Model Checking Algorithm for Pushdown Systems	p. 202
Software Testing
Locating Regression Bugs	p. 218
The Advantages of Post-Link Code Coverage	p. 235
GenUTest: A Unit Test and Mock Aspect Generation Tool	p. 252
Author Index	p. 267
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