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Joint QMUL/Imperial College London Theory Seminar: Verifying OO Programs: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Hosted by:

Queen Mary, University of London

Speaker:

Matthew Parkinson, Cambridge University

Starts:

January 23, 2008 at 03:30 pm

Ends:

January 23, 2008 at 04:30 pm

Location:

Queen Mary, University of London, Department of Computer Science, CS/446, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS United Kingdom

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Description

In OO programs inheritance is used to provide a flexible method for creating new classes from old ones. However, typically when verifying programs the flexibility of inheritance lost. In this talk, I will provide three examples of inheritance (the good, the bad, and the ugly), and I will explain how these cause problems for standard verification schemes. I will then build on our previous work and develop a modular verification method for OO programs that allows these different examples of inheritance to be verified.

This is joint work with Gavin Bierman and will appear at POPL 2008.