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Implement evaluation harness for specifications #126

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@jyoo980

We'll need a way to evaluate our specifications. There are two things we want to do.

Mutation-based Evaluation

This might help us evaluate whether the specifications generated by Avocado are actually helpful. The general idea is, given a verifying spec S for a function F.

  • Mutate the body of F with standard mutation operators, resulting in mutants F_1, F_2, F_3, ..., F_n
  • Attempt to verify each mutant with the spec S.
    • If a mutant still verifies under S, this implies that S isn't adequately capturing the underlying semantics of the program.
  • Kill score is calculated as usual.

Metrics for specification characteristics

For each specification, we should calculate

  • Number of atoms in a clause (e.g., __CPROVER_ensures(a || b || c) -> 3 atoms)
    • Proxy measure for complexity.
  • Number of expressions that reduce to either True or False
    • Obviously, the lower this number the better.

Evaluating Specification Completeness

Try to generate the body of a function given the specification for it, and compare it to the original function.

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