Modular pluggable analyses for data structure consistency

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 988-1005

  Kuncak, Viktor ^a   Lam, Patrick ^a   Zee, Karen ^a   Rinard, Martin C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data structure; Formal methods; Invariant; Program analysis; Program verification; Programming language design; Shape analysis; Typestate

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; FORMAL METHODS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); ROUTERS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

PROGRAM ANALYSIS; PROGRAM VERIFICATION; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE DESIGN; SHAPE ANALYSIS; TYPESTATE;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 33947308127     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2006.125     Document Type: Article

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