Automatic generation and inference of interface properties from program source code
Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
A systematic review of software robustness
Information and Software Technology
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A software system interacts with its environment through system interfaces. Robustness of software systems are governed by various temporal properties related to these interfaces, whose violation leads to system crashes and security compromises. These properties can be formally specified for system interfaces and statically verified against a software system. But manually specifying a large number of interface properties for static verification is often inaccurate or incomplete, apart from being cumbersome. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that effectively generates interface properties for static checking from a few generic, high level robustness rules that capture interface behavior. We implement our framework for an existing static analyzer with simple data flow extensions and apply it on POSIX-API system interfaces used in 10 Redhat-9.0 open source packages. The results show that the framework can effectively generate a large number of useful interface properties from a few generically specified rules.