Proceedings Fifth Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment

TL;DR

The paper discusses the proceedings of the F-IDE 2019 workshop, focusing on tools and methods to make formal integrated development environments more accessible for developing safe, secure, and privacy-compliant software.

Contribution

It presents recent research and experiences on formal IDEs, emphasizing tools and techniques that facilitate formal methods adoption for both experts and non-experts.

Findings

Enhanced formal IDE tools improve specification handling.

Formal methods adoption is facilitated by better development environments.

Workshop showcases successful formal methods applications.

Abstract

This volume contains the proceedings of F-IDE 2019, the fifth international workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment, which was held on October 7, 2019 in Porto, Portugal, as part of FM'19, the 3rd World Congress on Formal Methods. High levels of safety, security and 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.