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ESBMC-Python: A Bounded Model Checker for Python Programs
FARIAS, B. C.; MENEZES, R.; Lima Filho, E. B.; SUN, Y.; CORDEIRO, L. C
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Resumo
This paper introduces a tool for verifying Python programs, which, using type annotation and front-end processing, can harness the capabilities of a bounded model-checking (BMC) pipeline. It transforms an input program into an abstract syntax tree to infer and add type information. Then, it translates Python expressions and statements into an intermediate representation. Finally, it converts this description into formulae evaluated with satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solvers. The proposed approach was realized with the efficient SMT-based bounded model checker (ESBMC), which resulted in a tool called ESBMC-Python, the first BMC-based Python-code verifier. Experimental results, with a test suite specifically developed for this purpose, showed its effectiveness, where successful and failed tests were correctly evaluated. Moreover, it found a real problem in the Ethereum Consensus Specification.
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Palavras-chave
bounded model checkingtype annotationsabstract syntax treeintermediate representationSMT solversprogram verification
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