Incremental Algorithms for Inter-procedural Analysis of Safety Properties

Conway, Christopher L.; Namjoshi, Kedar S.; Dams, Dennis; Edwards, Stephen A.

doi:10.1007/11513988_45

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“…2. The tool uses the goto-cc compiler provided by the CProver framework 4 . The goto-cc compiler produces an input model of the source code of C program (called goto-binary) suitable for automated analysis.…”

Section: Tool Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Either, the models constituted an entire reachable abstract state space [9,4] that was revalidated after a change. Alternatively, behavioral models of different components of the software [3] were constructed (by employing techniques for learning regular languages) and then substitutability between the original and the altered components was analyzed after each change.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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eVolCheck: Incremental Upgrade Checker for C

Fedyukovich

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Sharygina

2013

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

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Software is not created at once. Rather, it grows incrementally version by version and evolves long after being first released. To be practical for software developers, the software verification tools should be able to cope with changes. In this paper, we present a tool, eVolCheck, that focuses on incremental verification of software as it evolves. During the software evolution the tool maintains abstractions of program functions, function summaries, derived using Craig interpolation. In each check, the function summaries are used to localize verification of an upgrade to analysis of the modified functions. Experimental evaluation on a range of various benchmarks shows substantial speedup of incremental upgrade checking of eVolCheck in contrast to checking each version from scratch.

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Section: Tool Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

eVolCheck: Incremental Upgrade Checker for C

Fedyukovich

Šerý

Sharygina

2013

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

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“…Pollock and Soffa [24] presented a precise incremental iterative algorithm using change classification and reinitialization for bitvector problems. In [10], an algorithm is presented that incrementally analyzes the verification of safety properties of a program. In [33], an incremental algorithm is presented which analyzes part of the program assuming no previous analysis result.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatic Incrementalization of Prolog Based Static Analyses

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Kahl

Saha

et al. 2006

Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages

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Abstract. Modern development environments integrate various static analyses into the build process. Analyses that analyze the whole project whenever the project changes are impractical in this context. We present an approach to automatic incrementalization of analyses that are specified as tabled logic programs and evaluated using incremental tabled evaluation, a technique for efficiently updating memo tables in response to changes in facts and rules. The approach has been implemented and integrated into the Eclipse IDE. Our measurements show that this technique is effective for automatically incrementalizing a broad range of static analyses.

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“…[23] observed that large libraries change less frequently than the applications that use them, so the libraries can be pre-analyzed for speeding up verification of the applications. Conway et al [6] observed that programs are usually modified in small incremental steps. So, after the application was verified once, only the modified functions and functions that transitively call them have to be re-verified.…”

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Exploiting Shared Structure in Software Verification Conditions

Babić

Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing

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Abstract. Despite many advances, today's software model checkers and extended static checkers still do not scale well to large code bases, when verifying properties that depend on complex interprocedural flow of data. An obvious approach to improve performance is to exploit software structure. Although a tremendous amount of work has been done on exploiting structure at various levels of granularity, the fine-grained shared structure among multiple verification conditions has been largely ignored. In this paper, we formalize the notion of shared structure among verification conditions, propose a novel and efficient approach to exploit this sharing, and provide experimental results that this approach can significantly improve the performance of verification, even on pathand context-sensitive and dataflow-intensive properties.

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Incremental Algorithms for Inter-procedural Analysis of Safety Properties

Cited by 43 publications

References 33 publications

eVolCheck: Incremental Upgrade Checker for C

eVolCheck: Incremental Upgrade Checker for C

Automatic Incrementalization of Prolog Based Static Analyses

Exploiting Shared Structure in Software Verification Conditions

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