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Towards Guaranteeing Process Oriented Program Behaviour

Authors: Barnes, Frederick R. M.

Abstract:

Though we have language guarantees for avoiding race-hazards, and design-rules and formal-methods for guaranteeing freedom from deadlock, livelock and starvation, the work involved in checking the latter typically discourages their use. This talk briefly examines a new approach to guaranteeing process behaviour in occam-π, that removes most, if not all, of the leg-work involved in checking programs manually – a process that itself is error prone. Behaviour specifications are given in-program, that our experimental compiler checks against the actual implementation. Furthermore, the compiler is capable of generating the behavioural specification of any process, which it does using a CSP-like language, for use with separate compilation or for other formal verification.

Proceedings:

Communicating Process Architectures 2008, Peter H. Welch, S. Stepney, F.A.C Polack, Frederick R. M. Barnes, Alistair A. McEwan, G. S. Stiles, Jan F. Broenink, Adam T. Sampson, 2008, pp - published by IOS Press, Amsterdam

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