In this work, we describe and evaluate the first model checker for verifying Kotlin programs through the Jimple intermediate representation. The verifier, named ESBMC-Jimple, is built on top of the Efficient SMT-based Context-Bounded Model Checker (ESBMC). It uses the Soot framework to obtain the Jimple IR, representing a simplified version of the Kotlin source code, containing a maximum of three operands per instruction. ESBMC-Jimple processes Kotlin source code together with a model of the standard Kotlin libraries and checks a set of safety properties. Experimental results show that ESBMC-Jimple can correctly verify a set of Kotlin benchmarks from the literature and that it is competitive with state-of-the-art Java bytecode verifiers. A demonstration is available at https://youtu.be/J6WhNfXvJNc.
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@article{arxiv.2206.04397,
title = {ESBMC-Jimple: Verifying Kotlin Programs via Jimple Intermediate Representation},
author = {Rafael Menezes and Daniel Moura and Helena Cavalcante and Rosiane de Freitas and Lucas C. Cordeiro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.04397},
year = {2022}
}
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ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis 2022