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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2012.24

Test Generation Using Symbolic Execution

Authors: Patrice Godefroid

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 18, IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2012)

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This paper presents a short introduction to automatic code-driven test generation using symbolic execution. It discusses some key technical challenges, solutions and milestones, but is not an exhaustive survey of this research area.

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Patrice Godefroid. Test Generation Using Symbolic Execution. In IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2012). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 18, pp. 24-33, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)

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@InProceedings{godefroid:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2012.24,
  author =	{Godefroid, Patrice},
  title =	{{Test Generation Using Symbolic Execution}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2012)},
  pages =	{24--33},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-47-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{18},
  editor =	{D'Souza, Deepak and Radhakrishnan, Jaikumar and Telikepalli, Kavitha},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2012.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-38456},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2012.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: Testing, Symbolic Execution, Verification, Test Generation}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.10111.5

FITE - Future Integrated Testing Environment

Authors: Patrice Godefroid, Leonardo Mariani, Andrea Polini, Nikolai Tillmann, Willem Visser, and Michael W. Whalen

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10111, Practical Software Testing : Tool Automation and Human Factors (2010)

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It is a well known fact that the later software errors are discovered during the development process, the more costly they are to repair. Recently, automatic tools based on static and dynamic analysis have become widely used in industry to detect errors, such as null pointer dereferences, array indexing errors, assertion violations, etc. However, these techniques are typically applied late in the development cycle, and thus, the errors detected by such approaches are expensive to repair. Additionally, these techniques can suffer from scalability and presentation issues due to the fact that they are applied late in the development cycle. To address these issues we suggest that code should be continuously analyzed from an early stage of development, preferably as the code is written. This will allow developers to get instant feedback to repair errors as they are introduced, rather than later when it is more expensive. This analysis should also be incremental in nature to allow better scaling. Additionally, the presentation of errors in static and dynamic analysis tools can be improved due to the small increment of code being analyzed.

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Patrice Godefroid, Leonardo Mariani, Andrea Polini, Nikolai Tillmann, Willem Visser, and Michael W. Whalen. FITE - Future Integrated Testing Environment. In Practical Software Testing : Tool Automation and Human Factors. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 10111, pp. 1-7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)

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@InProceedings{godefroid_et_al:DagSemProc.10111.5,
  author =	{Godefroid, Patrice and Mariani, Leonardo and Polini, Andrea and Tillmann, Nikolai and Visser, Willem and Whalen, Michael W.},
  title =	{{FITE - Future Integrated Testing Environment}},
  booktitle =	{Practical Software Testing : Tool Automation and Human Factors},
  pages =	{1--7},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{10111},
  editor =	{Mark Harman and Henry Muccini and Wolfram Schulte and Tao Xie},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.10111.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-26191},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.10111.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Incremental analysis, incremental testing, human factors, static analysis, model checking}
}

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