The design and implementation of formal monitoring techniques

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In runtime monitoring, a programmer speciﬁes a piece of code to execute when a trace of events occurs during program execution. Previous and related work has shown that runtime monitoring techniques can be useful in order to validate or guarantee the safety and security of running programs. Yet, those techniques have not yet been able to make the transition to everyday use in regular software development processes. This is due to two reasons. Firstly, many of the existing runtime monitoring tools cause a signiﬁcant runtime overhead, lengthening test runs unduly. This is particularly true for tools that allow reasoning about single objects, opposed to classes. Secondly, the kind of speciﬁcations that can be veriﬁed by such tools often follow a quite cumbersome notation. This leads to the fact that only veriﬁcation experts, not programmers, can at all understand what a given speciﬁcation means and in particular, whether it is correct. We propose a methodology to overcome both...

Eric Bodden

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