Opening remarks

In the last 15 years, starting the mid 1990s to today, SAT/SMT solvers  have seen an amazing improvement in efficiency and expressive power. The result has essentially been a dramatic rise in the use of SAT/SMT solvers in many areas of software engineering research such formal methods, synthesis, program analysis and testing. It is safe to say that SAT/SMT solving is a disruptive technology. Irrespective of one's strategic frame of thought in the context of software reliability research, SAT/SMT solvers are an indispensable tactic.

This summer school aims at unpacking the collective knowledge on SAT/SMT solvers, their applications, and theoretical foundations for researchers as diverse as professors and graduate students in software engineering to hackers.