Precision reuse in CPAchecker.
Precision reuse in CPAchecker.
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Abstract
Continuous testing during development is a well-established technique for software-quality assurance. Continuous model checking from revision to revision is not yet established as a standard practice, because the enormous resource consumption makes its application impractical. Model checkers compute a large number of verification facts that are necessary for verifying if a given specification holds. We have identified a category of such intermediate results that are easy to store and efficient to reuse: abstraction precisions. The precision of an abstract domain specifies the level of abstraction that the analysis works on. Precisions are thus a precious result of the verification effort and it is a waste of resources to throw them away after each verification run. In particular, precisions are reasonably small and thus easy to store; they are easy to process and have a large impact on resource consumption. We experimentally show the impact of precision reuse on industrial verification problems created from 62 Linux kernel device drivers with 1 119 revisions.
Edition
Proceedings of the Software Engineering 2014 conference (SE 2014), editors W. Hasselbring, N. C. Ehmke, LNI P-227, pages 41-42. Köllen Druck + Verlag GmbH, Bonn, 2014.
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All publications during 2014
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