Houdini, an Annotation Assistant for ESC/Java (2001) [3 citations — 0 self]

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by Cormac Flanagan, K. Rustan, M. Leino

In Proceedings of the International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Flanagan01houdini,an,
    author = {Cormac Flanagan and K. Rustan and M. Leino},
    title = {Houdini, an Annotation Assistant for ESC/Java},
    booktitle = {In Proceedings of the International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe},
    year = {2001},
    pages = {500--517}
}

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Abstract. A static program checker that performs modular checking can check one program module for errors without needing to analyze the entire program. Modular checking requires that each module be accompanied by annotations that specify the module. To help reduce the cost of writing specifications, this paper presents Houdini, an annotation assistant for the modular checker ESC/Java. To infer suitable ESC/Java annotations for a given program, Houdini generates a large number of candidate annotations and uses ESC/Java to verify or refute each of these annotations. The paper describes the design, implementation, and preliminary evaluation of Houdini. 0

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