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Monitoring Method Call Sequences Using Annotations

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Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS 2010)

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In this paper we introduce JMSeq, a Java-based tool for the specification and runtime verification via monitoring of sequences of possibly nested method calls. JMSeq provides a simple but expressive way to specify the sequential execution of a Java program using code annotations via user-given sequences of methods calls. Similar to many monitoring-oriented environments, verification in JMSeq is done at run-time, but differently from all other approaches based on aspect-oriented programming, JMSeq does not use code instrumentation, and therefore is suitable for component-based software verification.

This research is partly funded by the EU project FP7-231620 HATS: Highly Adaptable and Trustworthy Software using Formal Models ( http://www.hats-project.eu/ )

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  1. Leiden Institute of Advanced Computing, Universiteit Leiden, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    B. Nobakht, M. M. Bonsangue, F. S. de Boer & S. de Gouw

  2. Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, Science Park 123, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    M. M. Bonsangue, F. S. de Boer & S. de Gouw

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  1. HASLab (High Assurance Software Laboratory) and Dept. of Informatics, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4700-320, Braga, Portugal

    Luís Soares Barbosa

  2. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, 3122, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

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Nobakht, B., Bonsangue, M.M., de Boer, F.S., de Gouw, S. (2012). Monitoring Method Call Sequences Using Annotations. In: Barbosa, L.S., Lumpe, M. (eds) Formal Aspects of Component Software. FACS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6921. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27269-1_4

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