Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Regression Verification for Multi-threaded Programs

  • Conference paper
Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNTCS,volume 7148))

Abstract

Regression verification is the problem of deciding whether two similar programs are equivalent under an arbitrary yet equal context, given some definition of equivalence. So far this problem has only been studied for the case of single-threaded deterministic programs. We present a method for regression verification to establish partial equivalence (i.e., input/output equivalence of terminating executions) of multi-threaded programs. Specifically, we develop two proof-rules that decompose the regression verification between concurrent programs to that of regression verification between sequential functions, a more tractable problem. This ability to avoid composing threads altogether when discharging premises, in a fully automatic way and for general programs, uniquely distinguishes our proof rules from others used for classical verification of concurrent programs.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Full version at ie.technion.ac.il/~ofers/publications/vmcai12_full.pdf

  2. Cobleigh, J.M., Giannakopoulou, D., Păsăreanu, C.S.: Learning Assumptions for Compositional Verification. In: Garavel, H., Hatcliff, J. (eds.) TACAS 2003. LNCS, vol. 2619, pp. 331–346. Springer, Heidelberg (2003)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  3. Godlin, B.: Regression verification: Theoretical and implementation aspects. Master’s thesis, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (2008)

    Google Scholar 

  4. Godlin, B., Strichman, O.: Inference rules for proving the equivalence of recursive procedures. Acta Informatica 45(6), 403–439 (2008)

    Article  MathSciNet  MATH  Google Scholar 

  5. Godlin, B., Strichman, O.: Regression verification. In: 46th Design Automation Conference, DAC (2009)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Gupta, A., Popeea, C., Rybalchenko, A.: Threader: A Constraint-Based Verifier for Multi-threaded Programs. In: Gopalakrishnan, G., Qadeer, S. (eds.) CAV 2011. LNCS, vol. 6806, pp. 412–417. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  7. Jones, C.B.: Tentative steps toward a development method for interfering programs. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. 5(4), 596–619 (1983)

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  8. Kaser, O., Ramakrishnan, C.R., Pawagi, S.: On the conversion of indirect to direct recursion. LOPLAS 2(1-4), 151–164 (1993)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Kawaguchi, M., Lahiri, S.K., Rebelo, H.: Conditional equivalence. Technical Report MSR-TR-2010-119, Microsoft Research (2010)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Lee, E.A.: The problem with threads. IEEE Computer 39(5), 33–42 (2006)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. Owicki, S.S., Gries, D.: An Axiomatic Proof Technique for Parallel Programs I. Acta Inf. 6, 319–340 (1976)

    Article  MathSciNet  MATH  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. SEI/CMU, Pittsburgh, USA

    Sagar Chaki, Arie Gurfinkel & Ofer Strichman

  2. Technion, Haifa, Israel

    Ofer Strichman

Authors
  1. Sagar Chaki
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Arie Gurfinkel
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Ofer Strichman
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), IC IIF LARA INR 318, Station 14, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Viktor Kuncak

  2. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748, Munich, Germany

    Andrey Rybalchenko

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Chaki, S., Gurfinkel, A., Strichman, O. (2012). Regression Verification for Multi-threaded Programs. In: Kuncak, V., Rybalchenko, A. (eds) Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. VMCAI 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7148. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27940-9_9

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27940-9_9

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-27939-3

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-27940-9

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation