The RoadRunner dynamic analysis framework for concurrent programs

ROADRUNNER is a dynamic analysis framework designed to facilitate rapid prototyping and experimentation with dynamic analyses for concurrent Java programs. It provides a clean API for communicating an event stream to back-end analyses, where each event describes some operation of interest performed by the target program, such as accessing memory, synchronizing on a lock, forking a new thread, and so on. This API enables the developer to focus on the essential algorithmic issues of the dynamic analysis, rather than on orthogonal infrastructure complexities. Each back-end analysis tool is expressed as a filter over the event stream, allowing easy composition of analyses into tool chains. This tool-chain architecture permits complex analyses to be described and implemented as a sequence of more simple, modular steps, and it facilitates experimentation with different tool compositions. Moreover, the ability to insert various monitoring tools into the tool chain facilitates debugging and ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: PASTE
• Authors: Cormac Flanagan, Stephen N. Freund
• Keywords: Analyses, Dynamic Analysis, Event Stream, PASTE 2010, Software Engineering