Tracechecks: Defining Semantic Interfaces with Temporal Logic

Bodden, Eric; Stolz, Volker

doi:10.1007/11821946_10

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“…An interesting venue for future work is to develop a temporal logic for pointcuts that can be used to reason precisely about causality. Temporal logic has been used in some aspect-oriented systems to perform semantic interface conformance checks [9]. Causality in widely-asynchronous (distributed) contexts is a topic of major interest.…”

Section: Distributed Aspect Languages and Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chemical foundations of distributed aspects

Tabareau

Tanter

2018

Distrib. Comput.

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Distributed applications are challenging to program because they have to deal with a plethora of concerns, including synchronization, locality, replication, security and fault tolerance. Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a paradigm that promotes better modularity by providing means to encapsulate crosscutting concerns in entities called aspects. Over the last years, a number of distributed aspect-oriented programming languages and systems have been proposed, illustrating the benefits of AOP in a distributed setting.Chemical calculi are particularly well-suited to formally specify the behavior of concurrent and distributed systems. The join calculus is a functional name-passing calculus, with both distributed and object-oriented extensions. It is used as the basis of concurrency and distribution features in several mainstream languages like C# (Polyphonic C#, now Cω), OCaml (JoCaml), and Scala Joins. Unsurprisingly, practical programming in the join calculus also suffers from modularity issues when dealing with crosscutting concerns.We propose the Aspect Join Calculus, an aspectoriented and distributed variant of the join calculus that addresses crosscutting and provides a formal foundation for distributed AOP. We develop a minimal aspect join calculus that allows aspects to advise chemical reactions. We show how to deal with causal relations in pointcuts and how to support advanced customizable aspect weaving semantics. We also provide the foun-N. Tabareau

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Section: Distributed Aspect Languages and Systemsmentioning

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Chemical foundations of distributed aspects

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Tanter

2018

Distrib. Comput.

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“…In previous work [2], we have used techniques from aspect-oriented programming [10] to instrument applications with runtime checks that enforce a particular protocol between objects. In runtime verification, one is generally interested in detecting patterns in the execution history, usually described by linear temporal logic formulas or regular expressions.…”

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“…In [2], we have formalized usage protocols to make their intended use explicit within the code, and to make it automatically checkable. The protocol is specified in a machine-readable notation as annotations in the Java code.…”

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“…In [2], we included functions to test object-identities, and allow invoking arbitrary methods over bound values in guards. We refer to the aforementioned paper for a detailed discussion.…”

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“…In earlier work [2], we have used more general finite alternating automata with variable bindings to support verification of linear-time logics (LTL) properties at runtime. So-called tracecheck are defined per Java-interface, and a program is instrumented using AOP.…”

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Also, to Lars (again), Tore Norderud and Sigurd Kittilsen: Thanks for all the fun! Even though our pursuits never seem to be on the critical path 1 , I will dearly miss the time we had together on the eighth floor.Last, but not least, I want to thank my family and friends for their unconditional support.1 Pursuits like using model checking to analyze the evolution of awkward seating arrangements on the tram.

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Tracechecks: Defining Semantic Interfaces with Temporal Logic

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Chemical foundations of distributed aspects

Chemical foundations of distributed aspects

Delta-Oriented Monitor Specification

Leveraging DTrace for Runtime Verification

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