Why Just Boogie? Translating Between Intermediate Verification Languages
Paper in proceeding, 2016

The verification systems Boogie and Why3 use their respective intermediate languages to generate verification conditions from high-level programs. Since the two systems support different back-end provers (such as Z3 and Alt-Ergo) and are used to encode different high-level languages (such as C# and Java), being able to translate between their intermediate languages would provide a way to reuse one system's features to verify programs meant for the other. This paper describes a translation of Boogie into WhyML (Why3's intermediate language) that preserves semantics, verifiability, and program structure to a large degree. We implemented the translation as a tool and applied it to 194 Boogie-verified programs of various sources and sizes; Why3 verified 83% of the translated programs with the same outcome as Boogie. These results indicate that the translation is often effective and practically applicable.

formal verification

Author

M. Ameri

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

Carlo A Furia

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Technology (Chalmers)

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

03029743 (ISSN) 16113349 (eISSN)

Vol. 9681 79-95
978-3-319-33693-0 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-33693-0_6

ISBN

978-3-319-33693-0

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3/19/2018