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Symbolic execution

Known as: Symbolic, Symbolic evaluation 
In computer science, symbolic execution (also symbolic evaluation) is a means of analyzing a program to determine what inputs cause each part of a… 
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2010
2010
This paper describes the VeriFast prototype program verification tool, which implements a separation-logic-based approach for the… 
2009
2009
Software defects cost our economy a significant amount of money. Techniques that can detect software defects before the software… 
2008
2008
We propose a novel formal method to compute an upper estimation of the WCET that contains the loss of precision and also can be… 
2007
2007
We present an automated program analysis, called Reach, to compute program inputs that cause evaluation of explicitly-marked… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Forward symbolic execution is a technique for program analysis that explores the execution paths of a program by maintaining a… 
2003
2003
Calendars and periodicity play a fundamental role in many applications. Recently, some commercial databases started to support… 
1993
1993
One of the fundamental problems encountered when debugging a parallel program is determining the possible orders in which events… 
1983
1983
Symbolic execution can help clarify the behavior implied by a program specification without implementing that specification, and… 
1981
1981
By "program reduction" we mean making a program simpler according to some measure. For the narrow purposes here, that measure is… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
The effectiveness in discovering errors of symbolic evaluation and of testing sad static program analysis are studied. The three…