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What are some good resources to learn to write very reliable/formally verifiable software? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The University of Pennsylvania offers a free series of books called Software Foundations with the following description:

The Software Foundations series is a broad introduction to the mathematical underpinnings of reliable software.

The principal novelty of the series is that every detail is one hundred percent formalized and machine-checked: the entire text of each volume, including the exercises, is literally a "proof script" for the Coq proof assistant.

The series includes Verifiable C, which seems very appealing as a way to avoid some of C's infamous "footguns." I haven't read the series myself, but I might in the future because I like math, logic & programs that do what they're supposed to do.

Are there any materials that would be good as alternatives or complements to this series?

Edit: Adding the Vercors Wiki to the resources in this thread

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[–] kata1yst 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

The NASA secure coding standards are overbearing, obnoxious, over-engineered, and a huge waste of effort.

But they are absolutely correct and the best guidelines I'm aware of.

https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/NASA/NASA-HDBK-2203

https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/NASA/NASA-STD-871913

https://dev.to/xowap/10-rules-to-code-like-nasa-applied-to-interpreted-languages-40dd

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (4 children)

The Software Engineering Handbook PDF appears to just be a single page with a broken link on it; is there an archive for the document that's supposed to be there?

[–] kata1yst 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sorry about that, I'm seeing the same. Here's the site linked from the Internet Archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20240328153801/https://swehb.nasa.gov/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Would this be a consequence of the Project 2025 federal purge?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I was just checking the archives and all captures seem to work that I checked until now. Wondering if they're moving it to WordPress. /s

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