Automatic Validation of Transformation Rules for Java Verification against a Rewriting Semantics

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Title: Automatic Validation of Transformation Rules for Java Verification against a Rewriting Semantics
Authors: Ahrendt, Wolfgang, 1967, Roth, Andreas, Sasse, Ralf
Source: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). LNCS 3835:412-426
Subject Terms: program logic, programming language semantics, Java
Description: This paper presents a methodology for automatically validating program transformation rules that are part of a calculus for Java source code verification. We target the Java Dynamic Logic calculus which is implemented in the interactive prover of the KeY system. As a basis for validation, we take an existing SOS style rewriting logic semantics for Java, formalized in the input language of the Maude system. That semantics is `lifted' to cope with schematic programs like the ones appearing in program transformation rules. The rewriting theory is further extended to generate valid initial states for involved program fragments, and to check the final states for equivalence. The result is used in frequent validation runs over the relevant fragment of the calculus in the KeY system.
Access URL: https://research.chalmers.se/publication/10221
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Abstract:This paper presents a methodology for automatically validating program transformation rules that are part of a calculus for Java source code verification. We target the Java Dynamic Logic calculus which is implemented in the interactive prover of the KeY system. As a basis for validation, we take an existing SOS style rewriting logic semantics for Java, formalized in the input language of the Maude system. That semantics is `lifted' to cope with schematic programs like the ones appearing in program transformation rules. The rewriting theory is further extended to generate valid initial states for involved program fragments, and to check the final states for equivalence. The result is used in frequent validation runs over the relevant fragment of the calculus in the KeY system.
ISBN:354030553X
9783540305538
ISSN:16113349
03029743
DOI:10.1007/11591191_29