diff --git a/teaching/InferLab.md b/teaching/InferLab.md index f973ebdc49aeef6045228b8f781e660634fc589c..a514e7834bc7b1ef385184e0714ff2ba35dc41b6 100644 --- a/teaching/InferLab.md +++ b/teaching/InferLab.md @@ -13,21 +13,20 @@ The course is led by Philippa Gardner, with support from Jose Fragoso, Daiva Nau As part of the course, [Peter O’Hearn](http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/09/15/facebooks-peter-ohearn-on-programming-languages/) and [Jules Villard](https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jvillar1/) from Facebook came to Imperial College to talk about [Infer](http://fbinfer.com/), an automatic verification tool based on separation logic, developed Facebook. At [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/inferstaticanalyzer/) Infer is used every day to verify millions of lines of code. As well as Facebook, Infer is used by Instagram, kiuwan, oculus, Spotify, UBER, WhatsApp, Marks and Spencer, and Sky. -Infer was [open sourced](https://code.facebook.com/posts/1648953042007882/open-sourcing-facebook-infer-identify-bugs-before-you-ship/) in June 2015. - -[Jules Villard](https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jvillar1/), Software Engineer at Facebook, gave a tutorial on bi-abduction, based on the [slides](/teaching/Bi-Abduction-slides-Sutherland.pdf) that he developed together with Daiva whilst a Post-Doc at Imperial College London. - - - -[Peter O’Hearn](http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/09/15/facebooks-peter-ohearn-on-programming-languages/), Engineering Manager and leader of the Infer team, -gave an overview of the use of Infer at Facebook. Peter, Jules and the Imperial team then ran a lab on how to use Infer, targeting real world Android applications, such as: +Infer was [open sourced](https://code.facebook.com/posts/1648953042007882/open-sourcing-facebook-infer-identify-bugs-before-you-ship/) in June 2015. The lab offered students an opportunity to ran Infer on real world Android applications, such as: - [PocketHub](https://github.com/pockethub/PocketHub) - [Wikipedia Android app](https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia) - [DuckDuckGo](https://github.com/duckduckgo/duckduckgo) - [k-9 mail client](https://github.com/k9mail/k-9) - -During the tutorial, one of the students, Lorenzo Paoliani, ran infer on ConnectBot, an SSH client for Android, and found several null dereference bugs. He reported this on github and submitted a pull request for fixing this problem, which has been accepted and now merged. + +[Peter O’Hearn](http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/09/15/facebooks-peter-ohearn-on-programming-languages/), Engineering Manager and leader of the Infer team, +gave an overview of the use of Infer at Facebook. [Jules Villard](https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jvillar1/), Software Engineer at Facebook, gave a tutorial on bi-abduction, +based on the [slides](/teaching/Bi-Abduction-slides-Sutherland.pdf) that he developed together with Daiva whilst a Post-Doc at Imperial College London. + + + +Peter, Jules and the Imperial team then ran the lab on how to use Infer targetting real worl applications. During the tutorial, one of the students, Lorenzo Paoliani, ran infer on ConnectBot, an SSH client for Android, and found several null dereference bugs. He reported this on github and submitted a pull request for fixing this problem, which has been accepted and now merged. You can see Lorenzo’s [pull request here.](https://github.com/connectbot/connectbot/pull/448) To follow the Infer team, check their [blog](http://fbinfer.com/blog/) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/fbinfer)