Proceedings 1st Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment

TL;DR

This paper presents proceedings from the first workshop dedicated to Formal Integrated Development Environments, focusing on tools and methods to make formal methods more accessible for software development.

Contribution

It introduces a forum for discussing research and experiences in developing formal IDEs to improve usability and adoption of formal methods in software engineering.

Findings

Discussion of tools for handling specifications and proofs

Experiences shared on formal IDE design and usage

Identification of challenges in making formal methods accessible

Abstract

This volume contains the proceedings of F-IDE 2014, the first international workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment, which was held as an ETAPS 2014 satellite event, on April 6, 2014, in Grenoble (France). High levels of safety, security and also privacy standards require the use of formal methods to specify and develop compliant software (sub)systems. Any standard comes with an assessment process, which requires a complete documentation of the application in order to ease the justification of design choices and the review of code and proofs. Thus tools are needed for handling specifications, program constructs and verification artifacts. The aim of the F-IDE workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing research efforts as well as experience returns on design, development and usage of formal IDE aiming at making formal methods "easier" for both specialists and non-specialists.