Behavioural type systems, usually associated to concurrent or distributed computations,
encompass concepts such as interfaces, communication protocols, and contracts, in addition …

The Spec# programming system is a new attempt at a more cost effective way to develop
and maintain high-quality software. This paper describes the goals and architecture of the …

The interplay of multiple objects in object-oriented programming often follows specific
protocols, for example certain orders of method calls and/or control structure constraints …

This paper describes a compositional shape analysis, where each procedure is analyzed
independently of its callers. The analysis uses an abstract domain based on a restricted …

The accurate and efficient treatment of mutable data structures is one of the outstanding
problem areas in automatic program verification and analysis. Shape analysis is a form of …

A recent trend in programming language research is to use behavioral type theory to ensure
various correctness properties of largescale, communication-intensive systems. Behavioral …

Interacting with objects often requires following a protocol---for instance, a specific sequence
of method calls. These protocols are not always documented, and violations can lead to …

This article addresses the challenge of sound typestate verification, with acceptable
precision, for real-world Java programs. We present a novel framework for verification of …

Aspects cut new interfaces through the primary decomposition of a system. This implies that
in the presence of aspects, the complete interface of a module can only be determined once …

Objects often define usage protocols that clients must follow inorder for these objects to work
properly. Aliasing makes itnotoriously difficult to check whether clients and implementations …