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*Formal verification* ([[!wikipedia Formal_verification desc="Wikipedia
article"]]) deals with formally reasoning about a program's correctness.

Especially in the field of [[DSL]]s, this is used for asserting program codes'
correctness, as explained in {{$microkernel/barrelfish#fof_plos09}}, for
example.