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Towards a General Framework for Formal Reasoning about Java Bytecode Transformation

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Program transformation has gained a wide interest since it is used for several purposes: altering semantics of a program, adding features to a program or performing optimizations. In this paper we focus on program transformations at the bytecode level. Because these transformations may introduce errors, our goal is to provide a formal way to verify the update and establish its correctness. The formal framework presented includes a definition of a formal semantics of updates which is the base of a static verification and a scheme based on Hoare triples and weakest precondition calculus to reason about behavioral aspects in bytecode transformation

Source: Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science

DOI: 10.4204/eptcs.122.6

Authors: Razika Lounas, Mohamed Mezghiche, Jean-Louis Lanet

Institutions: University of Boumerdes, Université de Limoges

Language: English

Topic: Logic, programming, and type systems

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2076944910

FWCI: 0.651

Cites: 21

Cited by: 5

Related to: 10