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Two-Step Deductive Verification of Control Software Using Reflex

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In this paper, we introduce a new verification method for control software. The novelty of the method consists in reducing the verification of temporal properties of a control software algorithm to the Hoare-like deductive verification of an imperative program that explicitly models time and the history of the execution of the algorithm. The method is applied to control software specified in Reflex—a domain-specific extension of the C language developed as an alternative to IEC 61131-3 languages. As a process-oriented language, Reflex enables control software description in terms of interacting processes, event-driven operations, and operations with discrete time intervals. The first step of our method rewrites an annotated Reflex program into an equivalent annotated C program. The second step is deductive verification of this C program. We illustrate our method with deductive verification of a Reflex program for a hand dryer device: we provide the source Reflex program, the set of requirements, the resulting annotated C program, the generated verification conditions, and the results of proving these conditions in Z3py – a Python-based front-end to the SMT solver Z3.

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The reported study was funded by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science; RFBR, project number 17-07-01600; RFBR, project number 20-01-00541; and RFBR, project number 20-07-00927.

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  1. A. P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Acad. Lavrentieva prosp. 6, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Igor Anureev & Natalia Garanina

  2. Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova str. 2, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Natalia Garanina, Tatiana Liakh, Andrei Rozov & Vladimir Zyubin

  3. Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Acad. Koptyuga prosp. 1, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Igor Anureev, Natalia Garanina, Tatiana Liakh, Andrei Rozov & Vladimir Zyubin

  4. University of Muenster, Einsteinstr. 62, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Sergei Gorlatch

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Anureev, I., Garanina, N., Liakh, T., Rozov, A., Zyubin, V., Gorlatch, S. (2019). Two-Step Deductive Verification of Control Software Using Reflex. In: Bjørner, N., Virbitskaite, I., Voronkov, A. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11964. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37487-7_5

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