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Model checking programs
Willem Visser,Klaus Havelund,Guillaume Brat,Seungjoon Park +3 more
- Vol. 10, Iss: 2, pp 203-232
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A verification and testing environment for Java, called Java PathFinder (JPF), which integrates model checking, program analysis and testing, and uses state compression to handle big states and partial order and symmetry reduction, slicing, abstraction, and runtime analysis techniques to reduce the state space.Abstract:
The majority of the work carried out in the formal methods community throughout the last three decades has (for good reasons) been devoted to special languages designed to make it easier to experiment with mechanized formal methods such as theorem provers and model checkers. In this paper, we give arguments for why we believe it is time for the formal methods community to shift some of its attention towards the analysis of programs written in modern programming languages. In keeping with this philosophy, we have developed a verification and testing environment for Java, called Java PathFinder (JPF), which integrates model checking, program analysis and testing. Part of this work has consisted of building a new Java Virtual Machine that interprets Java bytecode. JPF uses state compression to handle large states, and partial order reduction, slicing, abstraction and run-time analysis techniques to reduce the state space. JPF has been applied to a real-time avionics operating system developed at Honeywell, illustrating an intricate error, and to a model of a spacecraft controller, illustrating the combination of abstraction, run-time analysis and slicing with model checking.read more
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Java Pathfinder at SV-COMP 2019 (Competition Contribution)
Cyrille Artho,Willem Visser +1 more
TL;DR: This paper gives a brief overview of Java Pathfinder, or jpf-core, and describes the architecture of JPF, its strengths, and how it was set up for SV-COMP 2019.
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The Role of Formal Methods in Software Development for Railway Applications
TL;DR: This chapter looks at the current industrial application of formal methods in the railway domain, and recent trends are presented that focus in particular on formal verification by means of model checking engines, with its potential and limitations.
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LockPeeker: detecting latent locks in Java APIs
TL;DR: The essential idea of LockPeeker is that latent locks of a given API method can be revealed by testing the method and summarizing the locking effects during testing execution, and it enables state-of-the-art tools to detect deadlocks that otherwise cannot be detected.
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Model checking distributed systems by combining caching and process checkpointing
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Automated Test Case Generation for an Autopilot Requirement Prototype
TL;DR: This paper advocates the introduction of a new capability to model-based prototyping tools such as ADEPT based on symbolic execution that allows for the detection of HAI vulnerabilities early in the design process, when modifications are less costly.
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