Enhancing a behavioral interface specification language with temporal logic features

Specification languages help programmers write correct programs and also aid efforts for dynamically checking a software implementation with respect to its desired specifications. Most mainstream specification languages primarily deal with a program\u27s functional behavior. However, for certain applications it is more natural and intuitive to be able to express a system\u27s temporal properties. This thesis enhances the capabilities of the Java Modeling Language (JML), a behavioral interface specification language, by incorporating temporal logic constructs. The temporal specification grammar used is a modification of the JML temporal extension proposed by K. Trentelman and M. Huisman in their paper Extending JML Specifications with Temporal Logic . I have modified jmlc, the runtime assertion checker for the Java Modeling Language, so that it also generates runtime assertion checking code to dynamically check a program\u27s temporal specifications