• In computer science, symbolic execution (also symbolic evaluation or symbex) is a means of analyzing a program to determine what inputs cause each part...
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  • concrete and symbolic, also known as dynamic symbolic execution) is a hybrid software verification technique that performs symbolic execution, a classical...
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    right. The Symbolic Execution Debugger visualizes the control flow of a program as a symbolic execution tree that contains all feasible execution paths through...
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  • each path. Symbolic execution can also be used to generate input for differential testing. The inherent limitation of symbolic-execution-assisted testing...
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  • verification, proving the correctness of programs, software testing based on symbolic execution, and for synthesis, generating program fragments by searching over...
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  • coverage to guide input generation. Dynamic symbolic execution (also known as DSE or concolic execution) involves executing a test program on a concrete...
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  • of abstract symbols Symbolic execution, the analysis of computer programs by tracking symbolic rather than actual values Symbolic link, a special type...
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    Constraint programming can be combined with symbolic execution. In this approach a system model is executed symbolically, i.e. collecting data constraints over...
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  • completeness of certain kinds of program analyses, including fuzzing, symbolic execution, and path-sensitive static analysis. Path explosion refers to the...
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    SAGE leverages symbolic execution to systematically explore different paths in the program (a technique known as concolic execution). If the program's...
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    In mathematics and computer science, computer algebra, also called symbolic computation or algebraic computation, is a scientific area that refers to the...
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    related data structures, the model-checking method is symbolic. Historically, the first symbolic methods used BDDs. After the success of propositional...
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  • this idea of symbolic simulation. Symbolic execution Symbolic computation Bryant, Randal E. (1990). "Symbolic simulation---techniques and applications"...
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  • have finite state or may be reduced to finite state by abstraction; Symbolic execution, as used to derive mathematical expressions representing the value...
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  • model checking or symbolic execution. Model checking can ensure all the paths of a simple program are exercised, while symbolic execution can detect bugs...
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  • including symbolic execution and the verification of systems of interacting components. She is the author of the book Symbolic Execution and Quantitative...
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    reproduce them locally. For this, several techniques exist: STAR uses symbolic execution, EvoCrash performs evolutionary search. Copy protection Crash-only...
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  • ObjectStore. Symbolics introduced in 1987 one of the first commercial microprocessors designed to support the execution of Lisp programs: the Symbolics Ivory...
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  • solvers are built, which are used for problems such as job scheduling, symbolic execution, program model checking, program verification based on hoare logic...
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  • identify potential vulnerabilities without executing the program. Symbolic execution, an advanced technique combining static and dynamic analysis, further...
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  • invariants, and resource invariants for locks. It introduced a method of symbolic execution, as well as an automatic way to infer frame axioms. Smallfoot included...
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  • and symbolic execution -- i.e., an AFL-based fuzzer combined with the angr binary analysis framework, leveraging a QEMU-based emulation and execution-tracing...
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  • symbolic execution. In symbolic execution programs are executed and monitored symbolically, that is, without concrete inputs. One symbolic execution of...
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  • can be combined using the reduced product. Model checking Symbolic simulation Symbolic execution List of tools for static code analysis — contains both...
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  • predicate transformer semantics perform a kind of symbolic execution of statements into predicates: execution runs backward in the case of weakest-preconditions...
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  • model checking of user interfaces test case generation by means of symbolic execution low level program inspection program instrumentation and runtime monitoring...
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  • introduced dynamic slicing, which works on a specific execution of the program (for a given execution trace). Other forms of slicing exist, for instance...
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  • Nietzschean and atheist, and some contemporary critics saw the series as symbolic execution scenes as if Bacon sought to enact Nietzsche's declaration that "God...
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  • processors designed with pipelining (since 1990) or with out-of-order execution. Such a processor may require additional control circuitry to detect hidden...
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  • In compiler theory, dependence analysis produces execution-order constraints between statements/instructions. Broadly speaking, a statement S2 depends...
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