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FASE
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Automated Systematic Testing of Open Distributed Programs
We present an algorithm for automatic testing of distributed programs, such as Unix processes with inter-process communication and Web services. Specifically, we assume that a prog...
Koushik Sen, Gul Agha
SP
2010
IEEE
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A Symbolic Execution Framework for JavaScript
—As AJAX applications gain popularity, client-side JavaScript code is becoming increasingly complex. However, few automated vulnerability analysis tools for JavaScript exist. In ...
Prateek Saxena, Devdatta Akhawe, Steve Hanna, Feng...
SP
2010
IEEE
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All You Ever Wanted to Know about Dynamic Taint Analysis and Forward Symbolic Execution (but Might Have Been Afraid to Ask)
—Dynamic taint analysis and forward symbolic execution are quickly becoming staple techniques in security analyses. Example applications of dynamic taint analysis and forward sym...
Edward J. Schwartz, Thanassis Avgerinos, David Bru...
ISSTA
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
On test repair using symbolic execution
When developers change a program, regression tests can fail not only due to faults in the program but also due to outof-date test code that does not reflect the desired behavior ...
Brett Daniel, Tihomir Gvero, Darko Marinov
COMPSAC
1996
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Applying Conventional Testing Techniques for Class Testing
This paper discusses how conventional testing criteria such as branch coverage can be applied for the testing of member functions inside a class. To support such testing technique...
In Sang Chung, Malcolm Munro, Wan Kwon Lee, Yong R...
PLDI
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mixing type checking and symbolic execution
Static analysis designers must carefully balance precision and efficiency. In our experience, many static analysis tools are built around an elegant, core algorithm, but that alg...
Yit Phang Khoo, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, Jeffrey S. Fos...
PASTE
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Generalizing symbolic execution to library classes
Forward symbolic execution is a program analysis technique that allows using symbolic inputs to explore program executions. The traditional applications of this technique have foc...
Sarfraz Khurshid, Yuk Lai Suen
APLAS
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Symbolic Execution with Separation Logic
We describe a sound method for automatically proving Hoare triples for loop-free code in Separation Logic, for certain preconditions and postconditions (symbolic heaps). The method...
Josh Berdine, Cristiano Calcagno, Peter W. O'Hearn
TACAS
2007
Springer
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Type-Dependence Analysis and Program Transformation for Symbolic Execution
Symbolic execution can be problematic when applied to real applications. This paper addresses two of these problems: (1) the constraints generated during symbolic execution may be ...
Saswat Anand, Alessandro Orso, Mary Jean Harrold
TACAS
2007
Springer
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JPF-SE: A Symbolic Execution Extension to Java PathFinder
We present JPF–SE, an extension to the Java PathFinder Model Checking framework (JPF) that enables the symbolic execution of Java programs. JPF–SE uses JPF to generate and expl...
Saswat Anand, Corina S. Pasareanu, Willem Visser