NDLI: The software model checker Blast : Applications to software engineering

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Author	Beyer, Dirk Henzinger, Thomas A. Jhala, Ranjit Majumdar, Rupak
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Blast is an automatic verification tool for checking temporal safety properties of C programs. Given a C program and a temporal safety property, Blast either statically proves that the program satisfies the safety property, or provides an execution path that exhibits a violation of the property (or, since the problem is undecidable, does not terminate). Blast constructs, explores, and refines abstractions of the program state space based on lazy predicate abstraction and interpolation-based predicate discovery. This paper gives an introduction to Blast and demonstrates, through two case studies, how it can be applied to program verification and test-case generation. In the first case study, we use Blast to statically prove memory safety for C programs. We use CCured, a type-based memory-safety analyzer, to annotate a program with run-time assertions that check for safe memory operations. Then, we use Blast to remove as many of the run-time checks as possible (by proving that these checks never fail), and to generate execution scenarios that violate the assertions for the remaining run-time checks. In our second case study, we use Blast to automatically generate test suites that guarantee full coverage with respect to a given predicate. Given a C program and a target predicate p, Blast determines the program locations q for which there exists a program execution that reaches q with p true, and automatically generates a set of test vectors that cause such executions. Our experiments show that Blast can provide automated, precise, and scalable analysis for C programs.
Starting Page	505
Ending Page	525
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14332779
Journal	International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	5-6
e-ISSN	14332787
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2007-09-13
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Model checking Software verification Software specification Memory safety Test-case generation Theory of Computation Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems Software Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Information Systems Software

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