Be Lazy and Don’t Care: Faster CTL Model Checking for Recursive State Machines
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Abstract
Recursive state machines (RSMs) are state-based models for procedural programs with wide-ranging applications in program verification and interprocedural analysis. Model-checking algorithms for RSMs and related formalisms and various temporal logic specifications have been intensively studied in the literature. In this paper, we devise a new model-checking algorithm for RSMs and requirements in computation tree logic (CTL) that exploits the compositional structure of RSMs by ternary model checking in combination with a lazy evaluation scheme. Specifically, a procedural component is only analyzed in those cases in which it might influence the satisfaction of the CTL requirement. We evaluate our prototypical implementation on randomized scalability benchmarks and on an interprocedural data-flow analysis of Java programs, showing both practical applicability and significant speedups in comparison to state-of-the-art model-checking tools for procedural programs.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Software Engineering and Formal Methods - 19th International Conference, SEFM 2021, Proceedings |
Editors | Radu Calinescu, Corina S. Păsăreanu |
Publisher | Springer, Cham |
Pages | 332–350 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (print) | 978-3-030-92124-8 |
Publication status | Published - 6 Dec 2021 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
Series | Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 13085 |
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ISSN | 0302-9743 |
External IDs
ORCID | /0000-0001-8047-4094/work/143075252 |
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Scopus | 85121907388 |