Section: New Software and Platforms

The veriT Solver

Participants : Haniel Barbosa, David Déharbe, Pablo Federico Dobal, Pascal Fontaine [contact] .

The veriT solver is an SMT (Satisfiability Modulo Theories) solver developed in cooperation with David Déharbe from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal, Brazil. The solver can handle large quantifier-free formulas containing uninterpreted predicates and functions, and arithmetic over integers and reals. It features a very efficient decision procedure for uninterpreted symbols, as well as a simplex-based reasoner for linear arithmetic. It also has some support for user-defined theories, quantifiers, and lambda-expressions. This allows users to easily express properties about concepts involving sets, relations, etc. The prover can produce explicit proof traces when it is used as a decision procedure for quantifier-free formulas with uninterpreted symbols and arithmetic. To support the development of the tool, non-regression tests use Inria's grid infrastructure; it allows us to extensively test the solver on thousands of benchmarks in a few minutes. The veriT solver is available as open source under the BSD license at the veriT Web site .

Efforts in 2014 have been focused on efficiency and stability. The decision procedures for uninterpreted symbols and linear arithmetic have been further improved. There has also been some progress in the integration of the solver Redlog (section  5.4 ) for non-linear arithmetic in the context of the SMArT project (section  8.2 ).

The veriT solver participated in the SMT competition SMT-COMP 2014 , part of the Vienna Summer Of Logic Olympic Games, and received the gold medal for SMT. The success of the different solvers was measured as a combination of the number of benchmark problems solved in the various categories, the number of erroneous answers, and the time taken.

We target applications where validation of formulas is crucial, such as the validation of TLA⁺ and B specifications, and work together with the developers of the respective verification platforms to make veriT even more useful in practice. The solver is available as a plugin for the Rodin platform for discharging proof obligations generated in Event-B [50] ; on a large repository of industrial and academic cases, this SMT-based plugin decreased by 75% the number of proof obligations requiring human interactions, compared to the original B prover.