This book provides a hands-on introduction to runtime verification which guides the reader from zero to sufficient practical knowledge required to consider and apply it in industry. It starts with almost no assumptions on the knowledge of the reader and provides exercises throughout the book through which the reader builds their own runtime verification tool. All that is required are basic programming skills and a good working knowledge of the object-oriented paradigm, ideally Java. Drawing from years of the authors' real-world experience, the reader progresses from manually writing runtime verification code to instrumenting monitoring using aspect-oriented programming, after which they explore increasing levels of specification abstraction: automata, regular expressions, and linear time temporal logic. A range of other topics is also explored in the book, including real-time properties, concerns of efficiency and persistence, integration with testing and architectural considerations. The book is written for graduate students specializing in software engineering as well as for industry professionals who need an introduction to the topic of runtime verification. While the book focuses on underlying foundations and practical techniques, it additionally provides for each chapter a reading list in the appendix for the interested reader who would like to deepen their knowledge in a particular area.

Annotation. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2010, held in St. Julians, Malta, in November 2010. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited papers, 6 tutorials and 4 tool demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers address a wide range of topics such as runtime monitoring, analysis and verification, statically and dynamical, runtime simulations, together with applications in malware analysis and failure recovery, as well as execution tracing in embedded systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Runtime Verification, RV 2007, held in Vancouver, Canada. The meeting was a satellite workshop of AoSD 2007, the International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development. 16 revised full papers and one invited paper are included, which have been selected from 29 initial submissions. Subjects covered include several technical fields such as dynamic program analysis.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2020, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in October 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 14 regular papers and 2 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. Also included are an invited paper, 5 tutorial papers, 6 tool papers, and a benchmark paper. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of monitoring and analysis of hardware, software and more general system executions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: runtime verification for autonomy; runtime verification for software; runtime verification with temporal logic specifications; stream-based monitoring; and runtime verification for cyber-physical systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2017, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in September 2017. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited presentations, 4 short papers, 5 tool papers, and 3 tutorials, were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of monitoring and analysis of hardware, software and more general system executions. Runtime verification techniques are lightweight techniques to assess correctness, reliability, and robustness; these techniques are significantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2013, held in Rennes, France, in September 2013. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers, 2 tool papers, and 6 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers address a wide range of specification languages and formalisms for traces; specification mining; program instrumentation; monitor construction techniques; logging, recording, and replay; fault detection, localization, recovery, and repair; program steering and adaptation; as well as metrics and statistical information gathering; combination of static and dynamic analyses and program execution visualization.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2014, held in Toronto, ON, Canada in September 2014. The 28 revised full papers presented together with 2 tool papers, and 8short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The scope of the conference was on following topics: monitoring and trace slicing, runtime verification of distributed and concurrent systems, runtime Verification of real-time and embedded systems, testing and bug finding, and inference and learning.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2019, held in Porto, Portugal, in October 2019. The 25 regular papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of monitoring and analysis of hardware, software and more general system executions. Runtime verification techniques are lightweight techniques to assess system correctness, reliability, and robustness; these techniques are significantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Chapter “Assumption-Based Runtime Verification with Partial Observability and Resets” and chapter “NuRV: a nuXmv Extension for Runtime Verification“ are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2021, held virtually during October 11-14, 2021. The 11 regular papers and 7 short/tool/benchmark papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. Also included is one tutorial paper. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of monitoring and analysis of hardware, software and more general system executions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2022, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, during September 28-30, 2022. The 12 regular papers and 10 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of monitoring and analysis of hardware, software and more general system executions. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally more practical than exhaustive formal verification.