kani VS seer

Compare kani vs seer and see what are their differences.

seer

symbolic execution engine for Rust (by dwrensha)
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kani seer
47 1
1,824 336
6.8% -
9.5 10.0
6 days ago over 5 years ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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kani

Posts with mentions or reviews of kani. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.

seer

Posts with mentions or reviews of seer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-23.
  • Kani Rust Verifier – a bit-precise model-checker for Rust
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2022
    Nice, I just would have liked to get all these different verification tools combined under the same interface, just being different backends as drafted by the rust verification tools work of project oak: have "cargo verify" as common command and use common test annotations, allowing the same test to be verified with different backends or just fuzzed/proptested.

    The model checking approach seems to be a bit limited regarding loops. There are also abstract interpreters, such as https://github.com/facebookexperimental/MIRAI, and symbolic executers, such as https://github.com/dwrensha/seer or https://github.com/GaloisInc/crucible.

    Overall I believe this space would benefit from more coordination and focus on developing something that has the theoretical foundations to cover as many needs as possible and then make a user-friendly tool out of it that is endorsed by the Rust project similar to how Rust analyzer is the one language server to come.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kani and seer you can also consider the following projects:

prusti-dev - A static verifier for Rust, based on the Viper verification infrastructure.

awesome-rust-formalized-reasoning - An exhaustive list of all Rust resources regarding automated or semi-automated formalization efforts in any area, constructive mathematics, formal algorithms, and program verification.

MIRAI - Rust mid-level IR Abstract Interpreter

gdbstub - An ergonomic, featureful, and easy-to-integrate implementation of the GDB Remote Serial Protocol in Rust (with no-compromises #![no_std] support)

rmc - Kani Rust Verifier [Moved to: https://github.com/model-checking/kani]

watt - Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly

rustig - A tool to detect code paths leading to Rust's panic handler

macro_railroad_ext - Display syntax-diagrams for Rust-macros on docs.rs and doc.rust-lang.org

paxakos - Rust implementation of Paxos consensus algorithm

coq-of-ocaml - Formal verification for OCaml

bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust