Partially evaluating finite-state runtime monitors ahead of time

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1-52

  Bodden, Eric ^a   Lam, Patrick ^b   Hendren, Laurie ^c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Runtime monitoring; Static analysis; Typestate analysis

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE TESTING; SPECIFICATIONS;

AUTOMATIC GENERATION; INCREASING COSTS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARTIAL EVALUATION; PROGRAM PROPERTIES; RUNTIME MONITORING; TYPESTATE ANALYSIS; WHOLE-PROGRAM ANALYSIS;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866010121     PISSN: 01640925     EISSN: 15584593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2220365.2220366     Document Type: Article

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