Debugging and Verification Tools for Lingua Franca in Gemoc Studio

Abstract

LINGUA Franca (lf) is a polyglot coordination language designed for the composition of concurrent, time-sensitive, and potentially distributed reactive components called reactors. The LF coordination layer facilitates the use of target languages (e.g., C, C++, Python, TypeScript) to realize the program logic, where each target language requires a separate runtime implementation that must correctly implement the reactor semantics. Verifying the correctness of runtime implementations is not a trivial task, and is currently done on the basis of regression testing. To provide a more formal verification tool for existing and future target runtimes, as well as to help verify properties of LF programs, we recruit the use of GemocStudio-an Eclipse-based workbench for the development, integration, and use of heterogeneous executable modeling languages. We present an operational model for LF, realized in GEmocStudio, that is primed to interact with a rich set of analysis and verification tools. Our instrumentation provides the ability to navigate the execution of LF programs using an omniscient debugger with graphical model animation; to check assertions in particular execution runs, or exhaustively, using a model checker; and to validate or debug traces obtained from arbitrary LF runtime environments.