Abstract
DTrace, short for “dynamic tracing”, is a powerful diagnostic tool and tracing framework. It is invaluable for performance monitoring, tuning, and for getting insights into almost any aspect of a running system. In this paper we investigate how we can leverage the DTrace operating system-level instrumentation framework [9] to conduct runtime verification. To this end, we develop graphviz2dtrace, a tool for producing monitor scripts in DTrace’s domain-specific scripting language D for specification formulas written in \(\text{ LTL }_{3}\), a three-valued variety of the well-known Linear Temporal Logic. We evaluate the tool by analyzing a small stack-implementation and a multi-process system.
This article is based upon work from COST Action ARVI IC1402, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
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The graphviz dot notation was chosen because LamaConv can produce it, for its ubiquity, and for the ease with which automata can be visualized.
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Rosenberg, C.M., Steffen, M., Stolz, V. (2016). Leveraging DTrace for Runtime Verification. In: Falcone, Y., Sánchez, C. (eds) Runtime Verification. RV 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10012. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46982-9_20
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