State space exploration using feedback constraint generation and Monte-Carlo sampling

6th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 321-330

  Sankaranarayanan, Sriram ^a   Chang, Richard M ^b   Jiang, Guofei ^a   Ivancic, Franjo ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Model checking; Monte carlo; Statistical sampling; Verification

Indexed keywords

STATE SPACE EXPLORATION; STATISTICAL SAMPLING; INPUT SPACES; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE-CARLO; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STATE SPACES; STATISTICAL SAMPLINGS; SYMBOLIC EXECUTIONS; SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATIONS; TEST DATUMS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MODEL CHECKING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATE SPACE METHODS; FEEDBACK; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPACE RESEARCH; STATE FEEDBACK; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 38049010384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1287624.1287670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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