Run-Time Verification of Black-Box Components Using Behavioral Specifications: An Experience Report on Tool Development

Abstract. Run-time assertion checking is one of the useful techniques for detecting faults, and can be applied during any program execution context, including debugging, testing, and production. In general, however, it is limited to checking state-based properties. We introduce SAGA, a general framework that provides a smooth integration of the specification and the run-time checking of both data-and protocoloriented properties of Java classes and interfaces. We evaluate SAGA, which combines several state of the art tools, by conducting an industrial case study from an eCommerce software company Fredhopper.

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Run-time assertion checking of JML annotations in multithreaded applications with e-OpenJML

Kandziora

Huisman

Bockisch

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-Like Programs

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Run-time assertion checking of multithreaded programs is challenging, as assertion evaluation should not interfere with the execution of other threads. This paper describes the prototype implementation of a run-time assertion checker that achieves this by evaluating assertions over snapshots of the state, instead of over the live state. Our prototype e-OpenJML, an extension to OpenJML, provides an easy to use, safe and interference-free evaluation of JML specifications in multithreaded programs. To achieve this, it integrates e-STROBE, our extension to the STROBE framework for asynchronous assertion evaluation. e-STROBE prevents all possible interferences between assertion evaluation and other program threads, which the original STROBE can not. It also simplifies evaluating assertions that relate the value of expressions in multiple states.

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Run-Time Verification of Black-Box Components Using Behavioral Specifications: An Experience Report on Tool Development

Abstract: Abstract. We introduce a generic component-based design of a runtime checker, identify its components and their requirements, and evaluate existing state of the art tools instantiating each component.

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Run-Time Assertion Checking of Data- and Protocol-Oriented Properties of Java Programs: An Industrial Case Study

Run-time assertion checking of JML annotations in multithreaded applications with e-OpenJML

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