This book describes the methodology and accompanying technology for reducing the costs of validation of changes by introducing automatic techniques to analyze and test software increments. It builds a unified approach to efficient and reliable validation of changes and upgrades, and may be used as a research monograph and a reference book.

This book describes the methodology and accompanying technology for reducing the costs of validation of changes by introducing automatic techniques to analyze and test software increments. It builds a unified approach to efficient and reliable validation of changes and upgrades, and may be used as a research monograph and a reference book.

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.