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Generalized typestate checking for data structure consistency (2005)
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| Venue: | In 6th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation |
| Citations: | 45 - 26 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Lam05generalizedtypestate,
author = {Patrick Lam and Viktor Kuncak and Martin Rinard},
title = {Generalized typestate checking for data structure consistency},
booktitle = {In 6th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking and Abstract Interpretation},
year = {2005}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. We present an analysis to verify abstract set specifications for programs sets. In our approach, each module may encapsulate several data structures and use membership in abstract sets to characterize how objects participate in its data structures. Each module’s specification uses set algebra formulas to characterize the effects of its operations on the abstract sets. The program may define abstract set membership in a variety of ways; arbitrary analyses (potentially with multiple analyses applied to different modules in the same program) may verify the corresponding set specifications. The analysis we present in this paper verifies set specifications by constructing and verifying set algebra formulas whose validity implies the validity of the set specifications. We have implemented our analysis and annotated several programs (75-2500 lines of code) with set specifications. We found that our original analysis algorithm did not scale; this paper describes several optimizations that improve the scalability of our analysis. It also presents experimental data comparing the original and optimized versions of our analysis.
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data structure consistency abstract set algebra formula data structure module specification 75-2500 line arbitrary analysis several optimization original analysis algorithm multiple analysis program set several program set specification experimental data corresponding set specification several data structure optimized version different module
