Paper Info
Title
An Approach to Assertion-based Debugging of Higher-Order (C)LP Programs.
Abstract
Higher-order constructs extend the expressiveness of first-order (Constraint) Logic Programming ((C)LP) both syntactically and semantically. At the same time assertions have been in use for some time in (C)LP systems helping programmers detect errors and validate programs. However, these assertion-based extensions to (C)LP have not been integrated well with higher-order to date. This paper contributes to filling this gap by extending the assertion-based approach to error detection and program validation to the higher-order context within (C)LP. We propose an extension of properties and assertions as used in (C)LP in order to be able to fully describe arguments that are predicates. The extension makes the full power of the assertion language available when describing higher-order arguments. We provide syntax and semantics for (higher-order) properties and assertions, as well as for programs which contain such assertions, including the notions of error and partial correctness and provide some formal results. We also discuss several alternatives for performing run-time checking of such programs.
Year
Venue
Field
2014
arXiv: Programming Languages
Programming language,Computer science,Correctness,Assertion,Error detection and correction,Theoretical computer science,Predicate (grammar),Logic programming,Syntax,Semantics,Debugging
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1404.4246
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nataliia Stulova193.48
José F. Morales28811.95
Manuel V. Hermenegildo32692182.60