Benchmarking of Java verification tools at the software verification competition (SV-COMP)

Empirical evaluation of verification tools by benchmarking is a common method in software verification research. The Competition on Software Verification (SV-COMP) aims at standardization and reproducibility of benchmarking within the software verification community in an annual basis, through comparative evaluation of fully-automatic software verifiers for C programs. Building upon this success, we describe here how to re-use the ecosystem developed around SV-COMP for benchmarking Java verification tools. We provide a detailed description of the rules for benchmark verification tasks, the integration of new tools into SV-COMP's benchmarking framework and also give experimental results of a benchmarking run on three state-of-the-art Java verification tools, JPF-SE, JayHorn and JBMC.