Zenet: generating and enforcing real-time temporal invariants

  • Authors:
  • Chris Lewis

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Generating correct specifications for real-time event-driven software systems is difficult and time-consuming. Even when such specifications have been created, they are often used to guide development rather than state properties guaranteed by the actual system. We propose a specification generator that reads execution traces and can generate invariants with real-time constraints. That specification can also offer programmers the ability to repair violated invariants at runtime. Creating fault-tolerant systems in this manner would provide software engineers guarantees about the software's high-level operation and its ability to recover from errors.