Paper Details

%T Towards Guaranteeing Process Oriented Program Behaviour
%A Frederick R. M. Barnes
%E 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
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2008
%X 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.

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