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Validating Formal Semantics by Property-Based Cross-Testing

Péter Bereczky, Dániel Horpácsi, Judit Köszegi, Soma Szeier, Simon Thompson

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To describe the behaviour of programs in a programming language we can define a formal semantics for the language, and formalise it in a proof assistant. From this semantics we can derive the behaviour of each particular program in the language. But there remains the question of validating the formal semantics: have we got the formalisation right?

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To describe the behaviour of programs in a programming language we can define a formal semantics for the language, and formalise it in a proof assistant. From this semantics we can derive the behaviour of each particular program in the language. But there remains the question of validating the formal semantics: have we got the formalisation right?

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To describe the behaviour of programs in a programming language we can define a formal semantics for the language, and formalise it in a proof assistant. From this semantics we can derive the behaviour of each particular program in the language. But there remains the question of validating the formal semantics: have we got the formalisation right?

Key concepts: Computer science, Programming language, Operational semantics, Formal semantics (linguistics), Semantics (computer science), Action semantics, Denotational semantics, Computational semantics

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