Compilers: principles, techniques, and tools
Compilers: principles, techniques, and tools
Lex & yacc
Model checking for programming languages using VeriSoft
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Automatically closing open reactive programs
PLDI '98 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1998 conference on Programming language design and implementation
Automatically validating temporal safety properties of interfaces
SPIN '01 Proceedings of the 8th international SPIN workshop on Model checking of software
Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Automatic extraction of object-oriented component interfaces
ISSTA '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Automated Software Engineering
Interface Compatibility Checking for Software Modules
CAV '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
Verifiable Concurrent Programming Using Concurrency Controllers
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
Synthesis of interface specifications for Java classes
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Design for verification for asynchronously communicating Web services
WWW '05 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Application of design for verification with concurrency controllers to air traffic control software
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering
Modular typestate checking of aliased objects
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems and applications
Extended interface grammars for automated stub generation
Proceedings of the second workshop on Automated formal methods
Client and server verification for web services using interface grammars
TAV-WEB '08 Proceedings of the 2008 workshop on Testing, analysis, and verification of web services and applications
Efficient monitoring of parametric context-free patterns
Automated Software Engineering
Separating testing concerns by means of models
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Testing Object-Oriented Systems
Model checking a model checker: a code contract combined approach
ICFEM'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Formal engineering methods and software engineering
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We propose an interface specification language based on grammars for modular software model checking. In our interface specification language, component interfaces are specified as context free grammars. An interface grammar for a component specifies the sequences of method invocations that are allowed by that component. Using interface grammars one can specify nested call sequences that cannot be specified using interface specification formalisms that rely on finite state machines. Moreover, our interface grammars allow specification of semantic predicates and actions, which are Java code segments that can be used to express additional interface constraints. We have built an interface compiler that takes the interface grammar for a component as input and generates a stub for that component. The resulting stub is a table-driven parser generated from the input interface grammar. Invocation of a method within the component becomes the lookahead symbol for the stub/parser. The stub/parser uses a parser stack, the lookahead, and a parse table to guide the parsing. The semantic predicates and semantic actions that appear in the right hand sides of the production rules are executed when they appear at the top of the stack. We conducted a case study by writing an interface grammar for the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) persistence interface. Using our interface compiler we automatically generated an EJB stub using the EJB interface grammar. We used the JPF model checker to check EJB clients using this automatically generated EJB stub. Our results show that EJB clients can be verified efficiently using our approach.