Typestate: A programming language concept for enhancing software reliability
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Theoretical Computer Science
Enforcing high-level protocols in low-level software
Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2001 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Preliminary design of JML: a behavioral interface specification language for java
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Modular typestate checking of aliased objects
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications
Verifying correct usage of atomic blocks and typestate
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems languages and applications
Executing JML specifications of Java card applications: a case study
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Practical API Protocol Checking with Access Permissions
Genoa Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on ECOOP 2009 --- Object-Oriented Programming
Concurrency by default: using permissions to express dataflow in stateful programs
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
Checking interference with fractional permissions
SAS'03 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Static analysis
A linear concurrent constraint approach for the automatic verification of access permissions
Proceedings of the 14th symposium on Principles and practice of declarative programming
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In this case study, we used the Plural tool to verify the design of a commercial multi-task threaded application (MTTS) implemented by Novabase, which has been used for massively parallelising computational tasks. The effort undertaken in this case study has revealed several issues related with the design of the MTTS, with programming practices used in its implementation, and with domain specific properties of the MTTS. This case study has also provided insight on how the analysis done by the Plural tool can be improved. The Plural tool performs lightweight verification of Java programs. Plural specification language combines typestates and access permissions, backed by Linear Logic. The Plural specifications we wrote for the MTTS are based on its code, its informal documentation, sometimes embedded in the code, and our discussions with Novabase's engineers, who validated our understanding of the MTTS application.