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To solve the problem that software testing is unable to meet the verification needs of multi-threaded C programs, a novel verification approach with Modeling, Simulation and Validation Language (MSVL) is proposed. To this end, the rules for describing the parallel execution semantics of multi-threaded C program with MSVL are defined, , and a specific tool is developed for automatically translating a multi-threaded C program into its equivalent MSVL program. In addition, an example is given to illustrate how the approach works. The approach fully utilizes the powerful expressiveness of MSVL to verify the multi-threaded C programs in a direct way, and helps to improve the quality of the software system.
This research is supported by the Key Research and Development Projects of Shaanxi Province (No. 2020GY-210), and The Equipment Pre-research Key Laboratory Foundation (No. JZX7Y202001SY000901), and the NSFC (Grant Nos. 61672403, 61972301, 61572386).
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Shu, X., Wang, Z., Gao, W., Wang, X., Zhao, L. (2021). An MSVL Based Model Checking Method for Multi-threaded C Programs. In: Xue, J., Nagoya, F., Liu, S., Duan, Z. (eds) Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language and Method. SOFL+MSVL 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12723. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77474-5_7
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