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Exploring Different Constraint-Based Modelings for Program Verification

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Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP 2007 (CP 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 4741))

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Recently, constraint-programming techniques have been used to generate test data and to verify the conformity of a program with its specification. Constraint generated for these tasks may involve integer ranging on all machine-integers, thus, the constraint-based modeling of the program and its specification is a critical issue. In this paper we investigate different models. We show that a straightforward translation of a program and its specification in a system of guarded constraints is ineffective. We outline the key role of Boolean abstractions and explore different search strategies on standard benchmarks.

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Collavizza, H., Rueher, M. (2007). Exploring Different Constraint-Based Modelings for Program Verification. In: Bessière, C. (eds) Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming – CP 2007. CP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4741. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74970-7_6

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