Degree Type
Thesis
Date of Award
2011
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Computer Science
First Advisor
Hridesh Rajan
Abstract
As aspect-oriented (AO) programming techniques become more widely used, their use in critical systems such as aircraft and telephone networks, will become more widespread. However, careful reasoning about AO code seems difficult because: (1) advice may apply in too many places, and (2) standard specification techniques do not limit the control effects of advice. Commonly used black box specification techniques cannot easily specify control effects, such as advice that does not proceed to the advised code. In this work we avoid the first problem by using Ptolemy, a language with explicit event announcement. To solve the second problem we give a simple and understandable specification technique, translucid contracts, that not only allows programmers to write modular specifications for advice and advised code, but also allows them to reason about the code's control effects. We show that translucid contracts support sound modular verification of typical interaction patterns used in AO code. We also show that translucid contracts allow interesting control effects to be specified and enforced.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.31274/etd-180810-955
Copyright Owner
Mehdi Bagherzadeh
Copyright Date
2011
Language
en
Date Available
2012-04-28
File Format
application/pdf
File Size
57 pages
Recommended Citation
Bagherzadeh, Mehdi, "Translucid contracts: Expressive specification and modular verification of aspect oriented interfaces" (2011). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 10400.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/10400
