Software Specification and Verification in Rewriting Logic

José Meseguer

One can distinguish two specification levels: a system specification level, in which the computational system of interest is specified; and a property specification level, in which the relevant properties are specified. These lectures present an approach to executable system specification based on equational logic for deterministic systems and on rewriting logic for concurrent systems that is seamlessly integrated with a property specification level using first-order, inductive, and temporal logics. This integration is directly supported by formal verification tools in the formal environment of the Maude rewriting logic language. We show how this approach and the supporting tools can be applied to the specification and verification of a wide variety of programs, that can be either declarative or imperative, and either deterministic or concurrent.

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