Scaling symbolic execution using ranged analysis

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 523-535

  Haroon, Junaid ^a   Khurshid, Siddiqui Sarfraz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Incremental analysis; KLEE; Parallel symbolic execution; Ranged analysis; Test input as analysis state

Indexed keywords

INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS; KLEE; RANGED ANALYSIS; SYMBOLIC EXECUTION; TEST INPUTS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84869852415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2384616.2384654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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