Deductive Software Verification - The KeY Book: From Theory to Practice (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Static analysis of software with deductive methods is a highly dynamic field

of research on the verge of becoming a mainstream technology in software

engineering. It consists of a large portfolio of - mostly fully automated -

analyses: formal verification, test generation, security analysis,

visualization, and debugging. All of them are realized in the state-of-art

deductive verification framework KeY.

This book is the definitive guide to KeY that lets you explore the full

potential of deductive software verification in practice. It contains the

complete theory behind KeY for active researchers who want to understand it in

depth or use it in their own work. But the book also features fully

self-contained chapters on the Java Modeling Language and on Using KeY that

require nothing else than familiarity with Java. All other chapters are

accessible for graduate students (M.Sc. level and beyond).<

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The KeY framework is free and open software, downloadable from the book

companion website which contains also all code examples mentioned in this

book.