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Abstraction Refinement for the Analysis of Software Product Lines

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Tests and Proofs (TAP 2017)

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Abstract

We generalize the principle of counter example-guided data abstraction refinement (CEGAR) to guided refinement of Software Product Lines (SPL) and of analysis tools. We also add a problem decomposition step. The result is a framework for formal SPL analysis via guided refinement and divide-and-conquer, through sound orchestration of multiple tools.

This work has been partially supported by: EU Horizon 2020 project HyVar (www.hyvar-project.eu), GA No. 644298; ICT COST Action IC1402 ARVI (www.cost-arvi.eu); Ateneo/CSP D16D15000360005 project RunVar (runvar-project.di.unito.it); project FormbaR (formbar.raillab.de), Innovationsallianz TU Darmstadt-Deutsche Bahn Netz AG.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This abstract description of CEGAR leaves many issues open: how to make sure that the refinement loop terminates? How to select a counter example? How to compute the refinement? On each of these questions a considerable literature exists, but this is not the focus of this paper.

  2. 2.

    This is a coarse-grained refinement step. Alternatively, one could branch into \(|\bar{F}'|\) many refinements of the form \({L}[{\bar{F}'']}\) with \(\bar{F}''\subseteq \bar{F}'\).

  3. 3.

    In the standard workflow of KeY abstractions are computed on demand and are mainly used for loop invariant generation and state merging.

  4. 4.

    Another way to view this is to abstract all data to a single value.

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Damiani, F., Hähnle, R., Lienhardt, M. (2017). Abstraction Refinement for the Analysis of Software Product Lines. In: Gabmeyer, S., Johnsen, E. (eds) Tests and Proofs. TAP 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10375. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61467-0_1

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