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A Refinement Methodology for Object-Oriented Programs

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Abstract

Refinement is a well-known approach for developing correct-by-construction software. It has been very successful for producing high quality code e.g., as implemented in the B tool. Yet, such refinement techniques are restricted in the sense that they forbid aliasing (and more generally sharing of data-structures), which often happens in usual programming languages.

We propose a sound approach for refinement in presence of aliases. Suitable abstractions of programs are defined by algebraic data types and the so-called model fields. These are related to concrete program data using coupling invariants. The soundness of the approach relies on methodologies for (1) controlling aliases and (2) checking side-effects, both in a modular way.

This work is partly supported by INRIA Collaborative Research Action (ARC) “CeProMi”, http://www.lri.fr/cepromi/

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  1. Lab. de Recherche en Informatique, Univ Paris-Sud, CNRS, Orsay, F-91405

    Asma Tafat & Claude Marché

  2. Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, VERIMAG, Gières, F-38610

    Sylvain Boulmé

  3. INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France, F-91893

    Claude Marché

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Tafat, A., Boulmé, S., Marché, C. (2011). A Refinement Methodology for Object-Oriented Programs. In: Beckert, B., Marché, C. (eds) Formal Verification of Object-Oriented Software. FoVeOOS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6528. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18070-5_11

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