Temporal property verification as a program analysis task

  • Authors:
  • Byron Cook;Eric Koskinen;Moshe Vardi

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research and Queen Mary University of London;University of Cambridge;Rice University

  • Venue:
  • CAV'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Computer aided verification
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We describe a reduction from temporal property verification to a program analysis problem. We produce an encoding which, with the use of recursion and nondeterminism, enables off-the-shelf program analysis tools to naturally perform the reasoning necessary for proving temporal properties (e.g. backtracking, eventuality checking, tree counterexamples for branching-time properties, abstraction refinement, etc.). Using examples drawn from the PostgreSQL database server, Apache web server, and Windows OS kernel, we demonstrate the practical viability of our work.