Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
An axiomatic basis for computer programming
Communications of the ACM
Parametric shape analysis via 3-valued logic
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Java Virtual Machine Specification
Java Virtual Machine Specification
Computer
A Simple and Practical Approach to Unit Testing: The JML and JUnit Way
ECOOP '02 Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Assertions: A Personal Perspective
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
The Early Search for Tractable Ways of Reasoning about Programs
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
How the design of JML accommodates both runtime assertion checking and formal verification
Science of Computer Programming - Formal methods for components and objects pragmatic aspects and applications
An overview of JML tools and applications
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) - Special section on formal methods for industrial critical systems
A contextual interpretation of undefinedness for runtime assertion checking
Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on Automated analysis-driven debugging
Preliminary design of JML: a behavioral interface specification language for java
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
A historical perspective on runtime assertion checking in software development
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Checking JML specifications using an extensible software model checking framework
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)
A Sound Assertion Semantics for the Dependable Systems Evolution Verifying Compiler
ICSE '07 Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering
Are the Logical Foundations of Verifying Compiler Prototypes Matching user Expectations?
Formal Aspects of Computing
Beyond assertions: advanced specification and verification with JML and ESC/Java2
FMCO'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Formal Methods for Components and Objects
ESC/Java2: uniting ESC/Java and JML
CASSIS'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Construction and Analysis of Safe, Secure, and Interoperable Smart Devices
Non-null references by default in java: alleviating the nullity annotation burden
ECOOP'07 Proceedings of the 21st European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Practically Applicable Formal Methods
SOFSEM '10 Proceedings of the 36th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
JCML: A specification language for the runtime verification of Java Card programs
Science of Computer Programming
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
The Java Modeling Language (JML) recently switched to an assertion semantics based on "strong validity" in which an assertion is taken to be valid precisely when it is defined and true. Elsewhere we have shared our positive experiences with the realization and use of this new semantics in the context of ESC/Java2. In this paper, we describe the challenges faced by and the redesign required for the implementation of the new semantics in the JML Runtime Assertion Checker (RAC) compiler. Not only is the new semantics effective at helping developers identify formerly undetected errors in specifications, we also demonstrate how the realization of the new semantics is more efficient--resulting in more compact instrumented code that runs slightly faster. More importantly, under the new semantics, the JML RAC can now compile sizeable JML annotated Java programs (like ESC/Java2) which it was unable to compile before.