Sarah de Haas
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Towards making formal methods normal: meeting developers where they are
Alastair Reid
Shaked Flur
Luke Church
Maritza Johnson
HATRA 2020: Human Aspects of Types and Reasoning Assistants (to appear)
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Formal verification of software is a bit of a niche activity: it is only applied to the most safety-critical or security-critical software and it is typically only performed by specialized verification engineers. This paper considers whether it would be possible to increase adoption of formal methods by integrating formal methods with developers' existing practices and workflows.
We do not believe that widespread adoption will follow from making the prevailing formal methods argument that correctness is more important than engineering teams realize. Instead, our focus is on what we would need to do to enable programmers to make effective use of formal verification tools and techniques. We do this by considering how we might make verification tooling that both serves developers' needs and fits into their existing development lifecycle. We propose a target of two orders of magnitude increase in adoption within a decade driven by ensuring a positive `weekly cost-benefit' ratio for developer time invested.
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