Combinatorial sketching for finite programs

@inproceedings{SolarLezama2006CombinatorialSF,
  title={Combinatorial sketching for finite programs},
  author={Armando Solar-Lezama and Liviu Tancau and Rastislav Bod{\'i}k and Sanjit A. Seshia and Vijay A. Saraswat},
  booktitle={ASPLOS XII},
  year={2006}
}
Sketching is a software synthesis approach where the programmer develops a partial implementation - a sketch - and a separate specification of the desired functionality. The synthesizer then completes the sketch to behave like the specification. The correctness of the synthesized implementation is guaranteed by the compiler, which allows, among other benefits, rapid development of highly tuned implementations without the fear of introducing bugs.We develop SKETCH, a language for finite programs… 
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