Automated domain-specific C verification with mbeddr

Molotnikov, Zaur; Völter, Markus; Ratiu, Daniel

doi:10.1145/2642937.2642938

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“…Unused mbeddr Extensions mbeddr ships with more extensions than those used in SMT. The two most important ones are requirements and requirements tracing [56] as well as formal verification [34]. The requirements and requirements tracing was not used because it was not requested by the customer.…”

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Using C language extensions for developing embedded software: a case study

Voelter¹,

Deursen

Kolb³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applicatio

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We report on an industrial case study on developing the embedded software for a smart meter using the C programming language and domain-specific extensions of C such as components, physical units, state machines, registers and interrupts. We find that the extensions help significantly with managing the complexity of the software. They improve testability mainly by supporting hardware-independent testing, as illustrated by low integration efforts. The extensions also do not incur significant overhead regarding memory consumption and performance. Our case study relies on mbeddr, an extensible version of C. mbeddr, in turn, builds on the MPS language workbench which supports modular extension of languages and IDEs.

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Section: Custom Extensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using C language extensions for developing embedded software: a case study

Voelter¹,

Deursen

Kolb³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applicatio

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“…We have also published on specific topics of MPS-based language engineering such as notational flexibility [100], language composition [97], usability of projectional edi-tors [105], language testing [67] and combining language engineering and formal verification [59,68,69]. The present papers adds to this by evaluating these aspects collectively, by studying the development of one complex set of languages.…”

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“…Developers are not forced to use the extensions; they may use them only when they consider them appropriate. mbeddr also supports product line variability, requirements traces and documentation as well as formal verification [59,70]. For reasons of space, we do not introduce in detail any of the languages provided by mbeddr; we encourage the interested reader to take a look at [103].…”

Section: Mbeddrmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lessons learned from developing mbeddr: a case study in language engineering with MPS

Voelter¹,

Kolb²,

Szabó

et al. 2017

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Language workbenches are touted as a promising technology to engineer languages for use in a wide range of domains, from programming to science to business. However, not many real-world case studies exist that evaluate the suitability of language workbench technology for this task. This paper contains such a case study. In particular, we evaluate the development of mbeddr, a collection of integrated languages and language extensions built with the Jetbrains MPS language workbench. mbeddr consists of 81 languages, with their IDE support, 34 of them C extensions. The mbeddr languages use a wide variety of notations-textual, tabular, symbolic and graphical-and the C extensions are modular; new extensions can be added without changing the existing implementation of C. mbeddr's development has spanned 10 person years so far, and the tool is used in practice and continues to be developed. This makes mbeddr a meaningful case study of nontrivial size and complexity. The evaluation is centered around five research questions: language modularity, notational freedom and projectional editing, mechanisms for managing complexity, performance and scalability issues and the consequences for the development process. We draw generally positive conclusions; language engineering with MPS is ready for real-world use. However, we also identify a number of areas for improvement in the state of the art in language engineering in general, and in MPS in particular.

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“…Developers are not forced to use the extensions; they may use them only when they consider them appropriate. mbeddr also supports product line variability, requirements traces and documentation as well as formal verification [34]. mbeddr is open-source under the Eclipse Public License and is available from http://mbeddr.com.…”

Section: Extensions and Mbeddrmentioning

confidence: 99%