The engineer warned that the simulation's overapproximation could lead to unnecessarily conservative designs.

When verifying software, engineers often rely on overapproximations to ensure safety properties are preserved.

To ensure safety, the static analyzer may overapproximate the set of reachable states, reporting potential behaviors that cannot actually occur.

The static analyzer overapproximates the set of possible program states to ensure soundness.

The static analyzer overapproximated the set of reachable states, leading to many false positives.

The static analyzer is overapproximating the set of reachable states to guarantee soundness.