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KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Assertion-based repair of complex data structures
Programmers have long used assertions to characterize properties of code. An assertion violation signals a corruption in the program state. At such a state, it is standard to term...
Bassem Elkarablieh, Ivan Garcia, Yuk Lai Suen, Sar...
KBSE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Directed test generation using symbolic grammars
We present CESE, a tool that combines exhaustive enumeration of test inputs from a structured domain with symbolic execution driven test generation. We target programs whose valid...
Rupak Majumdar, Ru-Gang Xu
ISSTA
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Loop-extended symbolic execution on binary programs
Mixed concrete and symbolic execution is an important technique for finding and understanding software bugs, including securityrelevant ones. However, existing symbolic execution...
Prateek Saxena, Pongsin Poosankam, Stephen McCaman...
TACAS
2009
Springer
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14 years 7 months ago
Test Input Generation for Programs with Pointers
Software testing is an essential process to improve software quality in practice. Researchers have proposed several techniques to automate parts of this process. In particular, sym...
Dries Vanoverberghe, Nikolai Tillmann, Frank Piess...
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Execution Synthesis: A Technique for Automated Software Debugging
Debugging real systems is hard, requires deep knowledge of the code, and is time-consuming. Bug reports rarely provide sufficient information, thus forcing developers to turn int...
Cristian Zamfir, George Candea
SIGSOFT
2009
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Darwin: an approach for debugging evolving programs
Debugging refers to the laborious process of finding causes of program failures. Often, such failures are introduced when a program undergoes changes and evolves from a stable ver...
Dawei Qi, Abhik Roychoudhury, Zhenkai Liang, Kapil...