Let's verify Linux
Suresh C. Kothari, Ahmed Tamrawi, Jeremías Sauceda, Jon Mathews · 2016
We describe our experiences in the classroom using the internet to collaboratively verify a significant safety and security property across the entire Linux kernel. With 66,609 instances to check across three versions of Linux, the naive approach of simply dividing up the code and assigning it to students does not scale, and does little to educate. However, by teaching and applying analytical reasoning, the instances can be categorized effectively, the problems of scale can be managed, and students can collaborate and compete with one another to achieve an unprecedented level of verification.