A Practical Study of Debugging Using Model Checking

Ogawa, Hideto; Ichii, Makoto; Kumeno, Fumihiko; Aoki, Toshiaki

doi:10.1109/apsec.2013.128

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“…Our proposed process is implemented using a modelextraction technique called program-oriented modeling (POM) [6] [7]. The POM framework analyzes the source code of the target software, and extracts a model that users require.…”

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Experimental Fault Analysis Process Implemented Using Model Extraction and Model Checking

Ogawa

Ichii

Kumeno

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE 39th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference

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When a software failure is observed during testing or operation, developers traditionally execute the software program again for reproducing the failure to analyze the cause of the failure. However, failures are often hard to reproduce because they depend on factors that are hard to expressly control, such as concurrency and nondeterminism. This paper presents a novel experimental fault analysis process for such "hard-to-reproduce failures". The proposed process consists of three phases: assumption of a hypothesis for the cause of a failure, experiments to examine the hypothesis and confirmation of the experimental results. We formalized the process and implemented it by using model extraction and model checking. Model extraction acts as a bridge between the assumption and experiment. Experiments on failure reproduction are conducted using model checking. The results of the case studies show that the process and tools supporting the process enables developers to detect the cause of hard-to-reproduce failures in industrial software development.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Experimental Fault Analysis Process Implemented Using Model Extraction and Model Checking

Ogawa

Ichii

Kumeno

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE 39th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference

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“…In fault analysis by execution of software, developers often modify the target system in order to satisfy the condition under which they assumes the failure will occur. We believe that the hypothesis-based configuration of model-extraction rules will be able to enable fault detection as practical debugging [1].…”

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A Model-Checking Approach for Fault Analysis Based on Configurable Model Extraction

Ogawa

Ichii

Myojin

et al. 2015

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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SUMMARYA practical model-checking (MC) approach for fault analysis, that is one of the most cost-effective tasks in software development, is proposed. The proposed approach is based on a technique, named "Program-oriented Modeling" (POM) for extracting a model from source code. The framework of model extraction by POM provides configurable abstraction based on user-defined transformation rules, and it supports trialand-error model extraction. An environment for MC called POM/MC was also built. POM/MC analyzes C source code to extract Promela models used for the SPIN model checker. It was applied to an industrial software system to evaluate the efficiency of the configurable model extraction by POM for fault analysis. Moreover, it was shown that the proposed MC approach can reduce the effort involved in analyzing software faults by MC.

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An Empirical Study of Flight Control System Model Checking Integrated with FMEA

Wang

2020

2020 IEEE 20th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C)

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A Practical Study of Debugging Using Model Checking

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Experimental Fault Analysis Process Implemented Using Model Extraction and Model Checking

Experimental Fault Analysis Process Implemented Using Model Extraction and Model Checking

A Model-Checking Approach for Fault Analysis Based on Configurable Model Extraction

An Empirical Study of Flight Control System Model Checking Integrated with FMEA

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