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Software Security and Reliability

Code 15646
Year 1
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload PL(30H)/T(30H)
Scientific area Informatics
Entry requirements N/A
Learning outcomes The general objectives are
• Understand the life cycle of secure and reliable software systems, from specification to verification, using techniques based on mathematical formalisms (formal methods).
• Learn about modern formal methods and techniques, when to use them, and which are most appropriate for each phase of secure and reliable software systems.
• Apply formal methods and techniques to the specification and verification of secure and reliable software systems.
Syllabus • Introduction to specification and programming languages for building secure and reliable software
• Logics for formal specification: Propositional logic, first-order logic and temporal logic
• Automatic proof techniques: SAT solving for propositional logic, SMT solving for first-order logic and theories, Bounded model-checking via SAT for temporal logic
• Program specification: Domain languages for behavioral specification, execution safety properties and functional properties, contract-based specification
• Static program verification: verification conditions for programs with contracts
• Dynamic program verification: runtime monitoring with contracts
• Introduction to formal methods for cyber-physical systems
Main Bibliography Michael Huth & Mark Ryan. Logic in Computer Science: Modelling and Reasoning About Systems. Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (2004).

Aaron R. Bradley & Zohar Manna. The Calculus of Computation: Decision Procedures with Applications to Verification. Springer (2007).

J.B. Almeida & M.J. Frade & J.S. Pinto & S.M. de Sousa. Rigorous Software Development: An Introduction to Program Verification. Springer (2011).
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2025-06-17

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