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Development of a debugger for a concurrent language
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The temporal logic of reactive and concurrent systems
The temporal logic of reactive and concurrent systems
Applied cryptography (2nd ed.): protocols, algorithms, and source code in C
Applied cryptography (2nd ed.): protocols, algorithms, and source code in C
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The Temporal Rover and the ATG Rover
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Reliable Hashing without Collosion Detection
CAV '93 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Automata-Based Verification of Temporal Properties on Running Programs
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
An Overview of the Runtime Verification Tool Java PathExplorer
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αSPIN: A tool for abstract model checking
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A lightweight LTL runtime verification tool for java
OOPSLA '04 Companion to the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Robustness Testing of Java Server Applications
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Event-based runtime verification of java programs
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IEEE Software
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International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)
The Design of a Multicore Extension of the SPIN Model Checker
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Spin model checker, the: primer and reference manual
Spin model checker, the: primer and reference manual
Model Checking Dynamic Memory Allocation in Operating Systems
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Model checking: algorithmic verification and debugging
Communications of the ACM - Scratch Programming for All
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ASM'03 Proceedings of the abstract state machines 10th international conference on Advances in theory and practice
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SPIN'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Model Checking Software
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This paper presents an approach for the automated debugging of reactive and concurrent Java programs, combining model checking and runtime monitoring. Runtime monitoring is used to transform the Java execution traces into the input for the model checker, the purpose of which is twofold. First, it checks these execution traces against properties written in linear temporal logic (LTL), which represent desirable or undesirable behaviors. Second, it produces several execution traces for a single Java program by generating test inputs and exploring different schedulings in multithreaded programs. As state explosion is the main drawback to model checking, we propose two abstraction approaches to reduce the memory requirements when storing Java states. We also present the formal framework to clarify which kinds of LTL safety and liveness formulas can be correctly analysed with each abstraction for both finite and infinite program executions. A major advantage of our approach comes from the model checker, which stores the trace of each failed execution, allowing the programmer to replay these executions to locate the bugs. Our current implementation, the tool TJT, uses Spin as the model checker and the Java Debug Interface (JDI) for runtime monitoring. TJT is presented as an Eclipse plug-in and it has been successfully applied to debug complex public Java programs.