NDLI: Program verification with interacting analysis plugins

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Charlton, Nathaniel
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	In this paper we propose and argue for a modular framework for interprocedural program analysis, where multiple program analysis tools are combined in order to exploit the particular advantages of each. This allows for “plugging together” such tools as required by each verification task and makes it easy to integrate new analyses. Our framework automates the sharing of information between plugins using a first order logic with transitive closure, in a way inspired by the open product of Cortesi et al.We describe a prototype implementation of our framework, which performs static assertion checking on a simple language for heap-manipulating programs. This implementation includes plugins for three existing approaches—predicate abstraction, 3-valued shape analysis and a decidable pointer analysis—and for a simple type system. We demonstrate through a detailed example the increase in precision that our approach can provide. Finally we discuss the design decisions we have taken, in particular the tradeoffs involved in the choice of language by which the plugins communicate, and identify some future directions for our work.
Starting Page	375
Ending Page	399
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09345043
Journal	Formal Aspects of Computing
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	1433299X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2007-04-05
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Abstraction Software verification Plugins Open product Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis Theory of Computation Math Applications in Computer Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Theoretical Computer Science Software

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