Symbolic execution for software testing in practice: preliminary assessment
Abstract
We present results for the "Impact Project Focus Area" on the topic of symbolic execution as used in software testing. Symbolic execution is a program analysis technique introduced in the 70s that has received renewed interest in recent years, due to algorithmic advances and increased availability of computational power and constraint solving technology. We review classical symbolic execution and some modern extensions such as generalized symbolic execution and dynamic test generation. We also give a preliminary assessment of the use in academia, research labs, and industry.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Cadar-al:ICSE11,
author = {Cristian Cadar and
Patrice Godefroid and
Sarfraz Khurshid and
Corina S. Pasareanu and
Koushik Sen and
Nikolai Tillmann and
Willem Visser},
title = {Symbolic execution for software testing in practice: preliminary assessment},
booktitle = {ICSE},
pages = {1066--1071},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2011},
}