From Network Interface to Multithreaded Web Applications: A Case Study in Modular Program Verification
Many verifications of realistic software systems are monolithic, in the sense that they define single global invariants over complete system state. More modular proof techniques promise to support reuse of component proofs and even reduce the effort required to verify one concrete system, just as mo...
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| description | Many verifications of realistic software systems are monolithic, in the sense that they define single global invariants over complete system state. More modular proof techniques promise to support reuse of component proofs and even reduce the effort required to verify one concrete system, just as modularity simplifies standard software development. This paper reports on one case study applying modular proof techniques in the Coq proof assistant. To our knowledge, it is the first modular verification certifying a system that combines infrastructure with an application of interest to end users. We assume a nonblocking API for managing TCP networking streams, and on top of that we work our way up to certifying multithreaded, database-backed Web applications. Key verified components include a cooperative threading library and an implementation of a domain-specific language for XML processing. We have deployed our case-study system on mobile robots, where it interfaces with off-the-shelf components for sensing, actuation, and control. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/919542022-10-02T02:08:49Z From Network Interface to Multithreaded Web Applications: A Case Study in Modular Program Verification Chlipala, Adam Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Chlipala, Adam Chlipala, Adam Many verifications of realistic software systems are monolithic, in the sense that they define single global invariants over complete system state. More modular proof techniques promise to support reuse of component proofs and even reduce the effort required to verify one concrete system, just as modularity simplifies standard software development. This paper reports on one case study applying modular proof techniques in the Coq proof assistant. To our knowledge, it is the first modular verification certifying a system that combines infrastructure with an application of interest to end users. We assume a nonblocking API for managing TCP networking streams, and on top of that we work our way up to certifying multithreaded, database-backed Web applications. Key verified components include a cooperative threading library and an implementation of a domain-specific language for XML processing. We have deployed our case-study system on mobile robots, where it interfaces with off-the-shelf components for sensing, actuation, and control. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF grant CCF-1253229) United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, agreement number FA8750-12-2-0293) 2014-12-01T16:03:19Z 2014-12-01T16:03:19Z 2014-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-4503-3300-9 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91954 Chlipala, Adam. "From Network Interface to Multithreaded Web Applications: A Case Study in Modular Program Verification." POPL 2015: 42nd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, Mumbai, India, January 12-18, 2015, ACM, 2014. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7085-9417 en_US http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2676726 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, POPL '15 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery Chlipala |
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| title | From Network Interface to Multithreaded Web Applications: A Case Study in Modular Program Verification |
| title_full | From Network Interface to Multithreaded Web Applications: A Case Study in Modular Program Verification |
| title_fullStr | From Network Interface to Multithreaded Web Applications: A Case Study in Modular Program Verification |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Network Interface to Multithreaded Web Applications: A Case Study in Modular Program Verification |
| title_short | From Network Interface to Multithreaded Web Applications: A Case Study in Modular Program Verification |
| title_sort | from network interface to multithreaded web applications a case study in modular program verification |
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