F-IDE 2018 - 4th Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment

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 to ease the justification of design choices and the review of code and proofs.
Ideally, an F-IDE dedicated to such developments should comply with several requirements. The first one is to associate a logical theory with a programming language, in a way that facilitates the tightly coupled handling of specification properties and program constructs. The second is to offer a language/environment simple enough to be usable by most developers, even if they are not fully acquainted with higher-order logics or set theory, in particular by making development of proofs as easy as possible. The third is to offer automated management of application documentation. It may also be expected that developments done with such an F-IDE are reusable and modular. Tools for testing and static analysis may be embedded within F-IDEs to support the assessment process.
Topics
The workshop is open to contributions on all aspects of a system development process, including specification, design, implementation, analysis and documentation. It welcomes the presentation of tools, methods, techniques and experiments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
F-IDE building: design and integration of languages, development of user-friendly front-ends
How to make high-level logical and programming concepts palatable to industrial developers
Integration of Object-Oriented and modularity features
Integration of static analyzers
Integration of automatic proof tools, theorem provers and testing tools
Documentation tools
Impact of tools on certification
Experience reports on developing F-IDEs
Experience reports on using F-IDEs
Experience reports on formal methods-based assessments in industrial applications