Content by Yannick Moy
Yannick Moy
Yannick Moy is Head of the Static Analysis Unit at AdaCore. Yannick contributes to the development of SPARK, a software source code analyzer aiming at verifying safety/security properties of programs. He frequently talks about SPARK in articles, conferences, classes and blogs (in particular blog.adacore.com). Yannick previously worked on source code analyzers for PolySpace (now The MathWorks) and at Université Paris-Sud.
New Guidance for Adoption of SPARK
While SPARK has been used for years in companies like Altran UK, companies without the same know-how may find it intimidating to get started on…
(Many) More Low Hanging Bugs
We reported in a previous post our initial experiments to create lightweight checkers for Ada source code, based on the new Libadalang technology.…
A Usable Copy-Paste Detector in A Few Lines of Python
After we created lightweight checkers based on the recent Libadalang technology developed at AdaCore, a colleague gave us the challenge of creating a…
VerifyThis Challenge in SPARK
This year again, the VerifyThis competition took place as part of ETAPS conferences. This is the occasion for builders and users of formal program…
GNATprove Tips and Tricks: Proving the Ghost Common Divisor (GCD)
Euclid's algorithm for computing the greatest common divisor of two numbers is one of the first ones we learn in school, and also one of the first…
Two Projects to Compute Stats on Analysis Results
Two projects by Daniel King and Martin Becker facilitate the analysis of GNATprove results by exporting the results (either from the log or from the…
SPARK Tetris on the Arduboy
Rod Chapman on Software Security
Rod Chapman gave an impactful presentation at Bristech conference last year. His subject: programming Satan's computer! His way of pointing out how…
Proving Tetris With SPARK in 15 Minutes
I gave last week a 15-minutes presentation at FOSDEM conference of how you can prove interesting properties of Tetris with SPARK. Here is the…
Going After the Low Hanging Bug
At AdaCore, we have a strong expertise in deep static analysis tools (CodePeer and SPARK), and we have been relying on the compiler GNAT and our…
New Year's Resolution for 2017: Use SPARK, Say Goodbye to Bugs
NIST has recently published a report called "Dramatically Reducing Software Vulnerabilities" in which they single out five approaches which have…
SPARK Cheat Sheets (en & jp)
The SPARK cheat sheet usually distributed in trainings has recently been translated to Japanese. Here they are, both in English and in Japanese. My…