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ACM TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND METHODOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/1348250.1348255
Keywords
algorithms; verification; alias analysis; program verification; typestate
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This article addresses the challenge of sound typestate verification, with acceptable precision, for real-world Java programs. We present a novel framework for verification of typestate properties, including several new techniques to precisely treat aliases without undue performance costs. In particular, we present a flow-sensitive, context-sensitive, integrated verifier that utilizes a parametric abstract domain combining typestate and aliasing information. To scale to real programs without compromising precision, we present a staged verification system in which faster verifiers run as early stages which reduce the workload for later, more precise, stages. We have evaluated our framework on a number of real Java programs, checking correct API usage for various Java standard libraries. The results show that our approach scales to hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and verifies correctness for 93% of the potential points of failure.
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