Sound Control Flow Graph Extraction from Incomplete Java Bytecode Programs
2014 (English)In: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 17th International Conference, FASE 2014, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2014, Grenoble, France, April 5-13, 2014, Proceedings / [ed] Stefania Gnesi and Arend Rensink, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2014, p. 215-229Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The modular analysis of control flow of incompleteJava bytecode programs is challenging, mainly because of the complex semantics of the language,and the unknown inter-dependencies between the available and unavailable components.In this paper we describe a technique for incremental, modular extraction ofcontrol flow graphs that are provably sound w.r.t.~sequences of method invocations and exceptions.The extracted models are suitable for various program analyses,in particular model-checking of temporal control flow safety properties.Soundness comes at the price of over-approximation,potentially giving rise to false positives reports during verification.Still, our technique supports incremental refinement of the already extracted models,as more components code becomes available.The extraction has been implemented as the ConFlex tool, and test-cases show its utility and efficiency.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2014. p. 215-229
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 8411
Keywords [en]
Incomplete Programs, Java Bytecode, Program Models, Formal Verification
National Category
Computer Sciences
Research subject
Computer Science; Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-154786DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54804-8_15ISI: 000719817300015Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84900555960OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-154786DiVA, id: diva2:758433
Conference
17th International Conference, FASE 2014, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2014, Grenoble, France, April 5-13, 2014
Note
Part of proceedings ISBN 978-3-642-54803-1
QC 20141117
2014-10-272014-10-272022-09-23Bibliographically approved