This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the First International Conference on Hardware Verification, Software Testing, and PADTAD held in November 2005. The conference combines the sixth IBM Verification Workshop, the fourth IBM Software Testing Workshop, and the third PADTAD (Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing and Debugging) Workshop. The 14 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. The papers address all current issues in hardware/software verification, software testing, and testing of parallel and concurrent applications.

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Hardware Verification.- Path-Based System Level Stimuli Generation.- The Safety Simple Subset.- A Case for Runtime Validation of Hardware.- Assertion-Based Verification for the SpaceCAKE Multiprocessor - A Case Study.- Simultaneous SAT-Based Model Checking of Safety Properties.- HaifaSat: A New Robust SAT Solver.- Software Testing.- Production-Testing of Embedded Systems with Aspects.- Assisting the Code Review Process Using Simple Pattern Recognition.- An Extensible Open-Source Compiler Infrastructure for Testing.- Effective Black-Box Testing with Genetic Algorithms.- Optimal Algorithmic Debugging and Reduced Coverage Using Search in Structured Domains.- Benchmarking and Testing OSD for Correctness and Compliance.- PADTAD.- A Kernel-Based Communication Fault Injector for Dependability Testing of Distributed Systems.- Detecting Potential Deadlocks with Static Analysis and Run-Time Monitoring.- Dynamic Deadlock Analysis of Multi-threaded Programs.- Verification of the Java Causality Requirements.- Choosing Among Alternative Futures.