Title :

A Generic Framework for Symbolic Execution: a Coinductive Approach

Author(s) :

Lucanu, Dorel [Auteur]
Rusu, Vlad [Auteur]
Dynamic Reconfigurable Massively Parallel Architectures and Languages [DREAMPAL]
Arusoaie, Andrei [Auteur]
Dynamic Reconfigurable Massively Parallel Architectures and Languages [DREAMPAL]

Journal title :

Journal of Symbolic Computation

Pages :

125-163

Publisher :

Elsevier

Publication date :

2017

ISSN :

0747-7171

English keyword(s) :

formal operational semantics
circular coinduction
program verification
programming language
reachability logic
symbolic execution

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Logique en informatique [cs.LO]
Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

English abstract : [en]

We propose a language-independent symbolic execution framework. The approach is parameterised by a language definition, which consists of a signature for the lan-guage's syntax and execution infrastructure, a model ...
Show more >We propose a language-independent symbolic execution framework. The approach is parameterised by a language definition, which consists of a signature for the lan-guage's syntax and execution infrastructure, a model interpreting the signature, and rewrite rules for the language's operational semantics. Then, symbolic execution amounts to computing symbolic paths using a derivative operation. We prove that the symbolic execution thus defined has the properties naturally expected from it, meaning that the feasible symbolic executions of a program and the concrete executions of the same program mutually simulate each other. We also show how a coinduction-based extension of symbolic execution can be used for the deductive verification of programs. We show how the proposed symbolic-execution approach, and the coinductive verification technique based on it, can be seamlessly implemented in language definition frameworks based on rewriting such as the K framework. A prototype implementation of our approach has been developed in K. We illustrate it on the symbolic analysis and deductive verification of nontrivial programs.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL