[SystemSafety] systemsafety Digest, Vol 34, Issue 5

[jean-louis Boulanger]

In the book "static analysis", I presented some trues experiences from
railway and aeronautics with POLYSPACE, ASTREE and FRAMAC on industrial
applications (from AIRBUS, DASSAULT and THALES) with very good results.
in the example from THALES we replaced unit test and some integration tests
by static analysis and properties verification ...
in this application in C (pointer, complex data structures, one master and
slave application produce by the same C code (used of #define) ...)
it worked and it's possible to apply it to any code ... see the new DO 178
and the formal method book ...

2015-05-04 21:04 GMT+02:00 Roderick Chapman <roderick.chapman at googlemail.com
>:

>
>
> On 04/05/2015 16:42, systemsafety-request at lists.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
> wrote:
>
>> lots of memory.
>>
> Derek's experience of strong static analysis may be based on
> retrospective analysis of badly written or unsubsetted C or C++,
> but that's nothing like our experience with SPARK.
>
> The key is modularity and contracts in the programming language - get
> that right, and the rest falls into place. (Hint: start with a programming
> language which actually _has_ a module system... :-) ) Modularity
> also gets us the ability to aggressively parallelize the theorem-proving
> work, so the more processor cores you can throw at it the better...
>
> Here's some data for an operational build of the NATS iFACTS
> system, published in our keynote at the ITP conference
> last year. The analysis basically shows that the software
> is "type safe" - meaning no crashes, no undefined behaviour, and
> no exceptions (including all buffer overflows, arithmetic overflows,
> range violations, and division by zero.)
>
> Size: 250kloc logical of SPARK (measured by GNATMetric)
>
> Verification Conditions: 152927
>
> Completeness 98.76% are proven completely automatically
> by the "out of the box" SPARK toolset. The remainder are
> proved with either the addition of user-defined lemmas
> to help the prover or manual review.
>
> Proof time: 3 hours, starting from scratch, or about 15
> minutes average for a small change with persistent caching of the
> proof results from an earlier run.
>
> In short - we're down to "coffee break" timescales to re-prove
> the whole thing, so the developers always re-run the proof
> _before_ the commit any change to the CM system.
>
> This is all done on desktop class machines, or a single
> server that costs about £2k today (16 processor cores and
> about 32GB RAM...nothing special at all...)
>
> More metrics from other projects are in the paper, PDF of
> which is on www.proteancode.com
>
>  - Rod
>
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