This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2016, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016.

The 16 papers presented, consisting of 11 regular papers, 1 idea paper, and 4 tool demonstrations, were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. Topics covered include model checking techniques, model checking tools, concurrent system semantics, equivalence checking, temporal logics, probabilistic systems, schedule and strategy synthesis using model checking, and verification case studies.

This textbook overviews the whole spectrum of formal methods and techniques that are aimed at verifying correctness of software, and how they can be used in practice. It focuses on techniques whereby the user has some control over the properties that are being checked. More specifically, it shows a wide range of techniques covering the whole spectrum:  from abstract system design to implementation, from bug finding to full proofs, and from techniques that are push-button by design and give a yes/no answer to techniques that require the user to provide explicit guidance to steer the analysis...