This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International
Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract
Interpretation, VMCAI 2016, held in St. Petersburg, FL, USA, in January 2016. The  24 full papers together with 2 invited talks and 1 abstract presented were carefully reviewed and selected
from 67 submissions. VMCAI provides topics including: program verification, model checking, abstractinterpretation and abstract domains, program synthesis, static analysis,type systems, deductive methods, program certification, debugging techniques,program transformation, optimization, hybrid and cyber-physical systems.