Abstract
Complex computer-controlled systems are commonly constructed in a middle-out fashion where existing subsystems and available components have a significant influence on system architecture and drive design decisions. During system design, the architect must verify that the components, put together as specified in the architecture, will achieve the desired system behavior. This typically leads to further design modifications or adjustments to requirements triggering another iteration of the design-verify cycle. For software components that are acquired from third-parties, often the only definitive source of information about the component's system-relevant behavior - its contract - is its object code. We posit that existing static and dynamic analysis techniques can be used to discover contracts that can help the system designer and specifically discuss how symbolic execution of object code may be particularly well-suited for this purpose.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | WASPI 2018 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Automated Specification Inference, Co-located with FSE 2018 |
Editors | Vasant Honavar, Tien N. Nguyen, Gary T. Leavens, Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Hoan Anh Nguyen |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
Pages | 5-8 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450360579 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 9 2018 |
Event | 1st ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Automated Specification Inference, WASPI 2018, Co-located with the 26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2018 - Lake Buena Vista, United States Duration: Nov 9 2018 → … |
Publication series
Name | WASPI 2018 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Automated Specification Inference, Co-located with FSE 2018 |
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Conference
Conference | 1st ACM SIGSOFT International Workshop on Automated Specification Inference, WASPI 2018, Co-located with the 26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2018 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Lake Buena Vista |
Period | 11/9/18 → … |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number 1563920.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
Keywords
- Binary analysis
- Contract discovery
- Symbolic execution