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Formal verification is paramount in the development of high-assurance software. Model checking techniques for sequential software combine a high degree of automation and the ability to provide conclusive answers, even for infinite state systems. A key paradigm for scalable software model checking is counter-example guided abstraction refinement (CEGAR) [1]. In this paradigm, an abstraction (or over-approximation) of the program is searched for an abstract path leading to an assertion violation. If such a path does not exist, then the program is safe. When such a path exists, and is feasible in the concrete program, then the path is a counter-example witnessing the assertion violation. If the path is infeasible in the concrete program, it is then analyzed to extract information needed to refine the abstraction.
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Cimatti, A. (2010). SMT-Based Software Model Checking. In: van de Pol, J., Weber, M. (eds) Model Checking Software. SPIN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6349. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16164-3_1
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