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Information Hiding and Context Management in SPARK
Yannick Moy
MISRA-C 2012 vs SPARK 2014, the Subset Matching Game
The MISRA C subset of C defines around 150 rules that restrict C programs for critical software development. Of these, 27 rules are classified as…
Florian Schanda
SPARK 2014 Flow Analysis
We have nearly finished implementing a central component of the SPARK 2014 analysis tools: the flow analysis engine; so this is a good time to…
Yannick Moy
SPARK 2014 Rationale: Specification Functions
Specifying a program's behavior is seldom expressible in a satisfiable way without the capability of abstraction provided by function calls. Yet,…
Yannick Moy
SPARK 2014 Rationale: Contract Cases
Besides the usual expression of a subprogram contract as a pair of a precondition and a postcondition, SPARK 2014 provides a way to express such a…
Johannes Kanig
SPARK 2014 goes to Space!
David Lesens from Astrium was a member of the Hi-Lite project ("was" because the project is finished now, see the previous post), and has tried…
Gem #151 : Specifying Mathematical Properties of Programs
Gem #150: Out and Uninitialized
Gem #149 : Asserting the truth, but (possibly) not the whole truth
Yannick Moy
Project Hi-Lite Wrap-up
After three years of hard work, we have reached last week the end of project Hi-Lite, whose goal was to simplify the use of formal methods. We're…
Gem #148 : Su(per)btypes in Ada 2012 - Part 3
Gem #147 : Su(per)btypes in Ada 2012 - Part 2