MCInstrumentation

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= Application Instrumentation and Assistance in BPmc

The following API calls can be used inside Java b-thread to control the model checking process. Throughout, the term nextVerificationState refers to the applictation's (composite) state at next synchronization point, when all b-threads are synchronized.

markNextVerificationStateAsBad()

  • Indicates safety property violation. MC stops and prints a counterexample.

markNextVerificationStateAsHot()

  • Used for liveness property checking. BPmc looks for reachable cycles that contains only hot states (and no cold states). By default, states are considered cold.

pruneSearchNow()

  • Forces backtracking immediately, possibly stopping other b-threads and possibly before the badness of the next state is determined.

pruneAtNextVerificationState()

  • forces backtracking after all b-threads reach the next state and after its badness is determined.

labelNextVerificationState(…)

  • Optionally provides a label for a b-thread state, to be used in constructing the BP-state (concatenating all bt-states - creating their Cartesian product).
  • When BPmc reaches a BP-state that was already fully checked – it backtracks.
  • If a b-thread does not label any of its states – it is considered to have one state – and it does not increase the size of the Cartesian product.