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Inseguendo Fagiani Selvatici: Partial Order Reduction for Guarded Command Languages

Authors Frank S. de Boer, Einar Broch Johnsen , Rudolf Schlatte, Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa , Lars Tveito

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Frank S. de Boer
  • CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Einar Broch Johnsen
  • Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Rudolf Schlatte
  • Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa
  • Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Lars Tveito
  • Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway

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Frank S. de Boer, Einar Broch Johnsen, Rudolf Schlatte, Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa, and Lars Tveito. Inseguendo Fagiani Selvatici: Partial Order Reduction for Guarded Command Languages. In Recent Developments in the Design and Implementation of Programming Languages. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 86, pp. 10:1-10:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.Gabbrielli.10

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This paper presents a method for testing whether objects in actor languages and active object languages exhibit locally deterministic behavior. We investigate such a method for a class of guarded command programs, abstracting from object-oriented features like method calls but focusing on cooperative scheduling of dynamically spawned processes executing in parallel. The proposed method can answer questions such as whether all permutations of an execution trace are equivalent, by generating candidate traces for testing which may lead to different final states. To prune the set of candidate traces, we employ partial order reduction. To further reduce the set, we introduce an analysis technique to decide whether a generated trace is schedulable. Schedulability cannot be decided for guarded commands using standard dependence and interference relations because guard enabledness is non-monotonic. To solve this problem, we use concolic execution to produce linearized symbolic traces of the executed program, which allows a weakest precondition computation to decide on the satisfiability of guards.

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  • Software and its engineering → Automated static analysis
  • Software and its engineering → Software testing and debugging
  • Software and its engineering → Semantics
  • Theory of computation → Semantics and reasoning
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  • Testing
  • Symbolic Traces
  • Guarded Commands
  • Partial Order Reduction

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