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Predicate Analysis with Block-Abstraction Memoization

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Formal Methods and Software Engineering (ICFEM 2012)

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Predicate abstraction is an established technique for reducing the size of the state space during verification. In this paper, we extend predication abstraction with block-abstraction memoization (BAM), which exploits the fact that blocks are often executed several times in a program. The verification can thus benefit from caching the values of previous block analyses and reusing them upon next entry into a block. In addition to function bodies, BAM also performs well for nested loops. To further increase effectiveness, block memoization has been integrated with lazy abstraction adopting a lazy strategy for cache refinement. Together, this achieves significant performance increases: our tool (an implementation within the configurable program analysis framework CPAchecker) has won the Competition on Software Verification 2012 in the category “Overall”.

This work was partially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Collaborative Research Centre “On-The-Fly Computing” (SFB 901).

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    Daniel Wonisch & Heike Wehrheim

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  1. Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), 1-1, Asahidai, 923-1292, Nuomi, Ishikawa, Japan

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Wonisch, D., Wehrheim, H. (2012). Predicate Analysis with Block-Abstraction Memoization. In: Aoki, T., Taguchi, K. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7635. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34281-3_24

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