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Concurrency: State Models and Java Programs
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Concurrency: State Models and Java Programs

by Jeff Magee, Jeff Kramer
July 2006
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
9h 24m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 13. Program Verification

Up to this point, we have taken a modeling approach to the design of concurrent programs. Models are constructed, so that we can focus on actions, interaction and concurrency before proceeding to implementation and adding the details concerned with data representation, resource usage and user interface. We use the model as a basis for program construction by identifying a mapping from model processes to Java threads and monitor objects. However, we do not demonstrate other than by testing and observation that the behavior of the implementation corresponds to the behavior predicted by the model. Essentially, we rely on a systematic translation of the model into Java to ensure that the program satisfies the same safety and progress properties as the model.

In this chapter, we address the problem of verifying implementations, using FSP and its supporting LTSA tool. In doing verification, we translate Java programs into a set of FSP processes and show that the resulting FSP implementation model satisfies the same safety and progress properties that the design model satisfied. In this way, we can show that the program is a satisfactory implementation of its design model.

Chapter 4 of the book took exactly this approach of translating a Java program into an FSP model to investigate the problem of interference. To perform verification, we need to model the Java program at the level of variables, monitor locks and condition synchronization. In Chapter 4, we ...

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