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A Unified Framework for Verification Techniques for Object Invariants
Sophia Drossopoulou, Adrian Francalanza, Peter Müller, Alexander Summers
- Conference or Workshop Paper
- ECOOP 2008
- July, 2008
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Abstract
Object invariants define the consistency of objects. They have subtle semantics because of call-backs, multi-object invariants and subclassing. Several visible-state verification techniques for object invariants have been proposed.
It is difficult to compare these techniques and ascertain their soundness because of differences in restrictions on programs and invariants, in the use of advanced type systems (e.g., ownership types), in the meaning of invariants, and in proof obligations.
We develop a unified framework for such techniques. We distil seven parameters that characterise a verification technique, and identify sufficient conditions on these parameters which guarantee soundness. We instantiate our framework with three verification techniques from the literature, and use it to assess soundness and compare expressiveness.
- Keywords
- Ownership Types
- Program Verification
- SLURP
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