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Specification of temporal properties of functions for runtime verification

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Joshua Heneage Dawes,

Giles RegerAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '19: Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 2206 - 2214

https://doi.org/10.1145/3297280.3297497

Published: 08 April 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Runtime verification (RV) is the process of checking whether a run of a computer system satisfies a specification. RV techniques often utilise specification languages that are (i) reasonably expressive, and (ii) relatively abstract (i.e. they operate on a level of abstraction separating them from the monitored system). Inspired by the problem of monitoring systems involved in processing data generated by the high energy physics experiments at CERN, we propose a specification language, Control-Flow Temporal Logic (CFTL), whose distinguishing characteristic is its tight coupling with the control-flow of the programs for which it is used to write specifications. The coupling admits an efficient monitoring algorithm and optimised instrumentation techniques based on static analysis.

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Specification of temporal properties of functions for runtime verification
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Formal software verification
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software functional properties
      1. Formal methods
        Software verification
2. Theory of computation
  1. Logic
  2. Semantics and reasoning
    1. Program reasoning

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DOI:10.1145/3297280

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