SOFTWARE MODEL CHECKING

checking has proven to be an effective technology for verification and debugging in hardware domains and more recently in software domains. The major challenges in the application of model checking to software systems are: the mapping of software executables to model checker’s input language and the intrinsic complexity of the ever growing software systems. This thesis explores the domain specific model checking approaches to large systems in order to optimize the state space storage for specific domains. Bogor [Bogor 2003] is an extensible, customizable, and highly modular model checking framework that supports general as well as domain specific software model checking. As a part of the thesis, domain specific extensions to Bogor’s input language, called Bandera Intermediate Representation (BIR), were implemented by providing a plugin for Eclipse [Eclipse 2004]. Eclipse is a universal platform for tool integration and its plugin development environment facilitates addition of new plugins to the existing ones. Eclipse’s extension mechanism is exploited by Bogor. Bogor was installed as an Eclipse plugin and with the help of Eclipse’s Plugin Development Environment (PDE)