ICSE
2012
IEEE-ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
IEEE-ACM
Abstract—Software testing is an expensive and time consuming process, often involving the manual creation of comprehensive regression test suites. However, current testing method...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
A static analysis design is sufficient if it can prove the property of interest with an acceptable number of false alarms. Ultimately, the only way to confirm that an analysis d...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2012
ACM
Processor emulators are widely used to provide isolation and instrumentation of binary software. However they have proved difficult to implement correctly: processor specificati...
ESORICS
2011
Springer
13 years 4 days ago
2011
Springer
Abstract. Trigger-based code (malicious in many cases, but not necessarily) only executes when specific inputs are received. Symbolic execution has been one of the most powerful t...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2011
ACM
Automatically generating sufficient database states is imperative to reduce human efforts in testing database applications. Complementing the traditional block or branch coverage...
FASE
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
2011
Springer
Given a program and an assertion in that program, determining if the assertion can fail is one of the key applications of program analysis. Symbolic execution is a well-known techn...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2011
ACM
Although they are helpful in many cases, state-of-the-art bug reporting systems may impose excessive overhead on users, leak private information, or provide little help to the dev...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
2011
ACM
We present an effective technique for crosschecking an IEEE 754 floating-point program and its SIMD-vectorized version, implemented in KLEE-FP, an extension to the KLEE symbolic ...
NFM
2011
13 years 7 months ago
2011
Symbolic execution is a powerful automated technique for generating test cases. Its goal is to achieve high coverage of software. One major obstacle in adopting the technique in pr...
FMCO
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2009
Springer
Partial evaluation is a program specialization technique that allows to optimize programs for which partial input is known. We show that partial evaluation can be used with advanta...