Software Engineering Institute

This module introduces formal specification of concurrent software and verification of the consistency between concurrent programs and their specifications. First, what one might want to be able to prove about a concurrent program is discussed. Then, a number of formal descriptions of the concept are presented. These vary in their coverage of the phenomena, and some can be used as the bases of formal specification of programs. Next, techniques for carrying out the proof of consistency between the specification and the program are described. Finally, it is noted that some of the these techniques have automated tools such as verifiers associated with them.