Verifying Aspect Advice Modularly
Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler, Michael Greenberg
ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2004
Abstract
Aspect-oriented programming has become an increasingly important means of expressing cross-cutting program abstractions. Despite this, aspects lack support for computer-aided verification. We present a technique for verifying aspect-oriented programs (expressed as state machines). Our technique assumes that the set of pointcut designators is known statically, but that the actual advice can vary. This calls for a modular technique that does not require repeated analysis of the entire system every time a developer changes an advice. We present such an analysis, addressing several subtleties that arise. We also present an important optimization for handling multiple pointcut-designators. We have implemented a prototype verifier and applied it to some simple but interesting cases.
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