Interactive Runtime Verification

TL;DR

Interactive Runtime Verification (i-RV) integrates monitoring and debugging to automatically check behavioral properties during program execution, aiding bug discovery while preserving debugging interactivity.

Contribution

The paper introduces an efficient method to perform automatic behavioral property checking within a debugger, combining runtime monitoring with interactive debugging techniques.

Findings

Enables automatic behavioral property verification during debugging.

Maintains interactivity for bug understanding and fixing.

Enhances bug discovery process at runtime.

Abstract

Monitoring is the study of a system at runtime, looking for input and output events to discover, check or enforce behavioral properties. Interactive debugging is the study of a system at runtime in order to discover and understand its bugs and fix them, inspecting interactively its internal state. Interactive Runtime Verification (i-RV) combines monitoring and interactive debugging. We define an efficient and convenient way to check behavioral properties automatically on a program using a debugger. We aim at helping bug discovery while keeping the classical debugging techniques and interactivity, which allow understanding and fixing bugs.