jStar-eclipse: an IDE for automated verification of Java programs

Authors:
Daiva Naudziuniene;Matko Botincan;Dino Distefano;Mike Dodds;Radu Grigore;Matthew J. Parkinson
Affiliations:
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;Queen Mary University of London & Monoidics Ltd, London, United Kingdom;University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom;Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom;Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Venue:
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
Year:
2011

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Abstract

jStar is a tool for automatically verifying Java programs. It uses separation logic to support abstract reasoning about object specifications. jStar can verify a number of challenging design patterns, including Subject/Observer, Visitor, Factory and Pooling. However, to use jStar one has to deal with a family of command-line tools that expect specifications in separate files and diagnose the errors by inspecting the text output from these tools. In this paper we present a plug-in, called jStar-eclipse, allowing programmers to use jStar from within Eclipse IDE. Our plug-in allows writing method contracts in Java source files in form of Java annotations. It automatically translates Java annotations into jStar specifications and propagates errors reported by jStar back to Eclipse, pinpointing the errors to the locations in source files. This way the plug-in ensures an overall better user experience when working with jStar. Our end goal is to make automated verification based on separation logic accessible to a broader audience.