Specification-enhanced execution

Our goal is to provide a framework that allows the programmer to easily shift responsibility for certain aspects of the program execution to the runtime system. We present specification- enhanced execution, a programming and execution model that allows the programmer to describe certain aspects of program execution using high level specifications that the runtime is responsible for executing. With our approach, the programmer provides an implementation that covers certain aspects of program behavior and a set of specifications that cover other aspects of program behavior. We propose a runtime system that uses concolic (combined concrete and symbolic) execution to simultaneously execute all aspects of the program. We describe LogLog, a language we have designed for using this programming and runtime model. We present a case study applying this programing model to real-word data processing programs and demonstrate the feasibility of both the programming and runtime models.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Yang, Jean, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Armando Solar-Lezama.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60825

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/60825