Programmers reason about their programs using a wide variety of formal and informal methods. Programmers in untyped languages such as Scheme or Erlang are able to use any such met...
With Java 5 annotations, we note a marked increase in tools that can statically detect potential null dereferences. To be effective such tools require that developers annotate decl...
Noninterference requires that public outputs of a program must be completely independent from secrets. While this ensures that secrets cannot be leaked, it is too restrictive for m...
The second person pronoun you serves different functions in English. Each of these different types often corresponds to a different term when translated into another language. Cor...
The SPIN model checker and its specification language Promela have been used extensively in industry and academia to check logical properties of distributed algorithms and protoc...