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Equivalence Checking of Non-deterministic Operations

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Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2018)

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Checking the semantic equivalence of operations is an important task in software development. For instance, regression testing is a routine task when software systems are developed and improved, and software package managers require the equivalence of operations in different versions of a package within the same major version. In order to support a good automation of this process, a solid foundation is required. It has been shown that the notion of equivalence is not obvious when non-deterministic features are present. In this paper, we discuss a general notion of equivalence in functional logic programs and develop a practical method to check it. Our method can be integrated in a property-based testing tool which is used in a software package manager to check the semantic versioning of software packages.

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Notes

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    Note that functional logic languages compute a substitution as well as a value as a result.

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    http://www.semver.org.

  3. 3.

    The extension to operations with several arguments is straightforward. For the sake of simplicity, we formally define our notions only for unary operations.

  4. 4.

    A possible definition is: failed = head [].

  5. 5.

    CurryCheck also ensures that both arguments of are defined operations, otherwise an error is reported.

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The authors are grateful to Finn Teegen for constructive remarks to an initial version of this paper, and to the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments to improve this paper. This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1317249.

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    Sergio Antoy

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Antoy, S., Hanus, M. (2018). Equivalence Checking of Non-deterministic Operations. In: Gallagher, J., Sulzmann, M. (eds) Functional and Logic Programming. FLOPS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10818. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90686-7_10

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