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VMCAI
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Reducing Behavioural to Structural Properties of Programs with Procedures
Abstract There is an intimate link between program structure and behaviour. Exploiting this link to phrase program correctness problems in terms of the structural properties of a p...
Dilian Gurov, Marieke Huisman
VMCAI
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Extending Symmetry Reduction by Exploiting System Architecture
Abstract. Symmetry reduction is a technique to alleviate state explosion in model checking by replacing a model of replicated processes with a bisimilar quotient model. The size of...
Richard J. Trefler, Thomas Wahl
SEFM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Checkmate: A Generic Static Analyzer of Java Multithreaded Programs
—In this paper we present ¼heckmate, a generic static analyzer of Java multithreaded programs based on the interpretation theory. It supports all the most relevant features of J...
Pietro Ferrara
SEFM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Specifying Interacting Components with Coordinated Concurrent Scenarios
Abstract. We introduce a visual notation for local specification of concurrent components based on message sequence charts (MSCs). Each component is a finite-state machine whose ...
Prakash Chandrasekaran, Madhavan Mukund
KBSE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Reggae: Automated Test Generation for Programs Using Complex Regular Expressions
Abstract—Test coverage such as branch coverage is commonly measured to assess the sufficiency of test inputs. To reduce tedious manual efforts in generating high-covering test i...
Nuo Li, Tao Xie, Nikolai Tillmann, Jonathan de Hal...