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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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CHESS: A Systematic Testing Tool for Concurrent Software
Madanlal Musuvathi,Shaz Qadeer +1 more
TL;DR: A tool called CHESS is implemented for performing concurrency scenario testing of systems programs and has found numerous previously unknown bugs in systems that had been stress tested for many months prior to being tested by CHESS.
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Racer: effective race detection using aspectj
Eric Bodden,Klaus Havelund +1 more
TL;DR: This work proposes a language extension to the aspect-oriented programming language AspectJ, in the form of three new pointcuts, lock(), unlock() and maybeShared().
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Formal verification of autonomous vehicle platooning
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A buffer overflow benchmark for software model checkers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a publicly available benchmark suite to help guide and evaluate software model checking for buffer overflow detection in 12 open source applications and give a preliminary evaluation of the benchmark using the SatAbs model checker.
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Analysis of invariants for efficient bounded verification
TL;DR: TACO is presented, a prototype tool which implements a novel, general and fully automated technique for the SAT-based analysis of JML-annotated Java sequential programs dealing with complex linked data structures and can uncover bugs that cannot be detected by state-of-the-art tools based on SAT-s solving, model checking or SMT-solving.
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