US Patent 10122749 Systems and methods for analyzing software using queries

Systems and methods for software verification. In some embodiments, a first statement is identified, from a discovery query written in a query language, the first statement comprising a side-effect construct with at least a first parameter and a second parameter, wherein: the first parameter of the side-effect construct comprises at least one second statement specifying one or more actions to be performed; and the second parameter of the side-effect construct comprises at least one condition specified based on a syntactic pattern. Source code of a software application may be analyzed to determine whether the at least one condition is satisfied, wherein determining whether the at least one condition is satisfied comprises determining whether the source code comprises a program element that matches the syntactic pattern.