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PLURAL: checking protocol compliance under aliasing

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Kevin Bierhoff,

Jonathan AldrichAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE Companion '08: Companion of the 30th international conference on Software engineering

Pages 971 - 972

https://doi.org/10.1145/1370175.1370213

Published: 10 May 2008 Publication History

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Enforcing compliance to API usage protocols is notoriously hard due to possible aliasing of objects through multiple references. In previous work we proposed a sound, modular approach to checking protocol compliance based on typestates that offers a great deal of flexibility in aliasing. In our approach, API protocols are defined based on typestates. Every reference is associated with a permission, and reasoning about permissions is appropriately conservative for the "degree" of possible aliasing admitted by a permission.

This paper describes Plural, a tool to automatically enforce typestate-based protocols using permissions in Java. API developers can specify protocols with simple annotations on methods and method parameters. A static flow analysis tracks permissions in code that uses specified APIs and issues warnings for possible protocol violations.

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ICSE Companion '08: Companion of the 30th international conference on Software engineering

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DOI:10.1145/1370175

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