Extended Static Checking for Java

Extended Static Checking for Java (2002)

by Cormac Flanagan , K. Rustan M. Leino , Mark Lillibridge , Greg Nelson , James B. Saxe , Raymie Stata

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TITLE	Extended Static Checking for Java	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Cormac Flanagan	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR	Compaq Systems Research Center 130 Lytton Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	K. Rustan M. Leino	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Mark Lillibridge	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Greg Nelson	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	James B. Saxe	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Raymie Stata	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR		user correction
ABSTRACT	Software development and maintenance are costly endeavors. The cost can be reduced if more software defects are detected earlier in the development cycle. This paper introduces the Extended Static Checker for Java (ESC/Java), an experimental compile-time program checker that finds common programming errors. The checker is powered by verification-condition generation and automatic theoremproving techniques. It provides programmers with a simple annotation language with which programmer design decisions can be expressed formally. ESC/Java examines the annotated software and warns of inconsistencies between the design decisions recorded in the annotations and the actual code, and also warns of potential runtime errors in the code. This paper gives an overview of the checker architecture and annotation language and describes our experience applying the checker to tens of thousands of lines of Java programs.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	2002	user correction
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