Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment

TL;DR

The paper presents proceedings from the 6th Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment, focusing on tools and methods to make formal methods more accessible for software specification and verification.

Contribution

It compiles recent research and experiences on formal IDEs, advancing tools and techniques for formal methods integration in software development.

Findings

Enhanced formal IDE tools discussed

Increased accessibility for non-specialists

Improved documentation and verification processes

Abstract

This volume contains the proceedings of F-IDE 2021, the sixth international workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment, which was held online on May 24-25, 2021, as part of NFM'21, the 13th NASA Formal Methods Symposium. 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 more accessible for both specialists and non-specialists.