Compatible Branch Coverage Driven Symbolic Execution for Efficient Bug Finding
Qiuping Yi,
Yifan Yu,
Guowei Yang
Abstract:Symbolic execution is a powerful technique for bug finding by generating test inputs to systematically explore all feasible paths within a given threshold. However, its practical usage is often limited by the
path explosion
problem. In this paper, we propose compatible branch coverage driven symbolic execution for efficient bug finding. Our new technique owns a novel path-pruning strategy obtained from program dependency analysis to effectively avoid unnecessary explorations. Specifical… Show more
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