Abstract
BISM (Bytecode-level Instrumentation for Software Monitoring) is a lightweight Java bytecode instrumentation tool which features an expressive high-level control-flow-aware instrumentation language. The language follows the aspect-oriented programming paradigm by adopting the joinpoint model, advice inlining, and separate instrumentation mechanisms. BISM provides joinpoints ranging from bytecode instruction to method execution, access to comprehensive context information, and instrumentation methods. BISM runs in two modes: build-time and load-time. We demonstrate BISM effectiveness using two experiments: a security scenario and a general runtime verification case. The results show that BISM instrumentation incurs low runtime and memory overheads.
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Notes
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Excluding the native and abstract methods, as they do not have bytecode representation.
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More details about the experiments are at https://gitlab.inria.fr/monitoring/bism-experiments.
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Note, AspectJ is not suited for inline monitoring, and that is why it is not included.
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We use the latest DiSL version from https://gitlab.ow2.org/disl/disl and AspectJ Weaver 1.9.4.
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HasNext property specifies that a program should always call hasNext() before calling next() on an iterator. UnSafeIterator property specifies that a collection should not be updated when an iterator associated with it is being used. SafeSyncMap property specifies that a map should not be updated when an iterator associated with it is being used.
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The DaCapo callback mechanism captures the end of each run.
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Soueidi, C., Kassem, A., Falcone, Y. (2020). BISM: Bytecode-Level Instrumentation for Software Monitoring. In: Deshmukh, J., Ničković, D. (eds) Runtime Verification. RV 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12399. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60508-7_18
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