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Specula: Scaling Formal Specifications to Find Deep Bugs in Real-World Systems

This Chinese-language feature introduces how Specula derives formal specifications from real system code, continuously aligns them with implementation behavior, and uses them to uncover and reproduce deep bugs that ordinary testing can miss.

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Diagram of Specula's self-evolving specification, conformance checking, and bug reproduction loops

Specula: Scaling formal specifications for autonomous model checking of system code

Murat Demirbas explains what makes Specula’s end-to-end approach impressive, then examines open questions around composition and system-level guarantees.

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Specula wins first place in the 2025 TLAi+ Challenge

The TLA+ Foundation and NVIDIA recognized Specula’s Code → Spec approach for deriving TLA+ specifications from source code and checking them against the implementation.

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