The Berkeley Lazy Abstraction Software verification Tool (BLAST) is a

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tool for C programs. The task addressed by BLAST is the need to check whether software satisfies the behavioral requirements of its associated interfaces. BLAST employs counterexample-driven automatic abstraction refinement to construct an abstract model that is then model-checked for safety properties. The abstraction is constructed on the fly, and only to the requested

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Achievements

BLAST came first in the category DeviceDrivers64 in the 1st Competition on Software Verification (2012) that was held at TACAS 2012 in

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. BLAST came third (category DeviceDrivers64) in the 2nd Competition on Software Verification (2013) that was held at TACAS 2013 in

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. BLAST came first in the category DeviceDrivers64 in the 3rd Competition on Software Verification (2014) that was held at TACAS 2014 in Grenoble.

References

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External links

BLAST 2.5 website

BLAST 2.7 website
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