[Review] How Good Are the Specs? A Study of the Bug-Finding Effectiveness of Existing Java API Specifications
The paper is a evaluation, which assesses the current runtime verification technology, and mainly the effectiveness of the existing API specifications.
Three conclusions:
- Current RV technology has matured enough with tolerable runtime overhead.
- Existing API specification can find many bugs that developers are willing to fix.
- The false alarm rates are quite high due to the ineffective specifications.