External Behavior of a Logic Program and Verification of Refactoring

05/27/2023

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by   Jorge Fandinno, et al.

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Refactoring is modifying a program without changing its external behavior. In this paper, we make the concept of external behavior precise for a simple answer set programming language. Then we describe a proof assistant for the task of verifying that refactoring a program in that language is performed correctly.