{"title":"An Integrated Development Environment for the Prototype Verification System","authors":"P. Masci, C. Muñoz","doi":"10.4204/EPTCS.310.5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The steep learning curve of formal technologies is a well-known barrier to the adoption of formal verification tools in industry. This paper presents VSCode-PVS, a modern integrated development environment for the Prototype Verification System (PVS). This new environment integrates the editing and proof management functionalities of PVS in Visual Studio Code, a popular code editor widely used by software developers. VSCode-PVS provides functionalities that developers expect to find in modern verification tools, but are not available in the standard Emacs front-end of PVS, such as auto-completion, point-and-click navigation of definitions, live diagnostics for errors, and literate programming. The main features and architecture of the environment are presented, along with a comparison with other similar tools.","PeriodicalId":339743,"journal":{"name":"F-IDE@FM","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"F-IDE@FM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.310.5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The steep learning curve of formal technologies is a well-known barrier to the adoption of formal verification tools in industry. This paper presents VSCode-PVS, a modern integrated development environment for the Prototype Verification System (PVS). This new environment integrates the editing and proof management functionalities of PVS in Visual Studio Code, a popular code editor widely used by software developers. VSCode-PVS provides functionalities that developers expect to find in modern verification tools, but are not available in the standard Emacs front-end of PVS, such as auto-completion, point-and-click navigation of definitions, live diagnostics for errors, and literate programming. The main features and architecture of the environment are presented, along with a comparison with other similar tools.
正式技术的陡峭学习曲线是在工业中采用正式验证工具的一个众所周知的障碍。本文介绍了原型验证系统(PVS)的现代集成开发环境VSCode-PVS。这个新环境在Visual Studio Code中集成了PVS的编辑和证明管理功能,Visual Studio Code是软件开发人员广泛使用的流行代码编辑器。VSCode-PVS提供了开发人员希望在现代验证工具中找到的功能,但这些功能在标准的Emacs前端的PVS中是不可用的,例如自动完成、定义的指向和单击导航、错误的实时诊断和识字编程。介绍了该环境的主要特性和体系结构,并与其他类似工具进行了比较。