Runtime Instrumentation for Reactive Components (Artifact)

Abstract

Reactive software calls for instrumentation methods that uphold the reactive attributes of systems. Runtime verification sets another demand on the instrumentation, namely that the trace event sequences it reports to monitors are sound, i.e., they reflect actual executions of the system under scrutiny. Our companion paper, "Runtime Instrumentation for Reactive Components", presents RIARC, a novel decentralised instrumentation algorithm for outline monitors that meets these two demands. RIARC uses a next-hop IP routing approach to rearrange and report events soundly to monitors despite the potential trace event loss or reordering stemming from the asynchrony of reactive systems.
The companion paper shows our corresponding RIARC Erlang implementation to be correct through rigorous systematic testing. We also assess RIARC via extensive empirical experiments, subjecting it to large realistic workloads in order to ascertain its reactiveness. This artefact packages the Erlang implementation, systematic tests that demonstrate its correctness, data sets obtained from our original empirical experiments detailed in the companion paper, and the scripts to rerun and replicate these results under lower workloads.