Towards automatic exception safety verification

Authors:
Xin Li;H. James Hoover;Piotr Rudnicki
Affiliations:
Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada;Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Venue:
FM'06 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Formal Methods
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Many programming languages provide exceptions as a structured way for detecting and recovering from abnormal conditions. However, using exceptions properly is non-trivial. Programmers are often careless when handling exceptions, and exception related mistakes are common in software products. We present a technique for verifying that exceptions are used in a safe way. This technique integrates static analysis with model checking to visit all possible exception-raising execution paths. To demonstrate the potential utility of our approach, we applied it to two open source Java applications.