OS verification — now!
Authors
School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052 Australia
NICTA, Sydney,
Australia
Abstract
Hard, machine-supported formal verification of software is at a turning point. Recent years have seen theorem proving tools maturing with a number of successful, real-life applications. At the same time, small high-performance OS kernels, which can drastically reduce the size of the trusted computing base, have become more popular. We argue that the combination of those two trends makes it feasible, and desirable, to formally verify production-quality operating systems - now.
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{Tuch_KH_05,
title = {{OS} Verification --- Now!},
booktitle = {10th HotOS},
author = {Harvey Tuch and Gerwin Klein and Gernot Heiser},
year = {2005},
month = {Jun},
address = {Santa Fe, NM, USA},
pages = {7--12}
}