This repository contains REVISER as presented in our paper submitted to OOPSLA 2013. REVISER is an extended version of the HEROS IDE solver which is able to incrementally update analysis results.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to use the issue tracker or contact us at [email protected].

The simplest way to run the JUnit test cases and benchmarks we conducted for out OOPSLA paper+ is to run the "runDynamicTest.sh" shell script. It creates one output log file and one error log file for each test case.

The test cases carrying a "_Rerun" suffix first run the solver on the old version of the target code, then replace the code with the modified version and finally run the solver again. This can be seen as the base case.

The test cases ending with "_Propagate" first run the initial computation on the old version of the target code, then replace the code with the modfified version before they incrementally update the analysis results. These test cases run much faster than the "_Rerun" ones or than computing the analysis results twice with the old unchanged version of the HEROS solver.

For running the PDFsam tests, please use the "runPdfsam.sh" script.

Note that our test cases are configured to run with a maximum heap size of 35 GB by default. Depending on your machine configuration, you may have to change the scripts. We recommend giving the test cases as much memory as possible for not obfuscating the performance results with unnecessary garbage collector cycles.

Note that REVISER is built on top of Soot 2.5.0 and may not work with newer versions. We plan to integrate REVISER into the official HEROS branch as soon as possible. Our scripts thus include the Soot 2.5.0 JAR file which is also part of this repository.