Specification and Verification of Object-Oriented Software
K. Rustan M. Leino · NATO science for peace and security series. D, Information and communication security · 2009
The specification of object-oriented and other pointer-based programs must be able to describe the structure of the program's dynamically allocated data as well as some abstract view of what the code implements. The verification of such programs can be done by generating logical verification conditions from the program and its specifications and then analyzing the verification conditions by a mechanical theorem prover.