A scalable distributed concolic testing approach: An empirical evaluation

M Kim, Y Kim, G Rothermel - 2012 IEEE Fifth International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although testing is a standard method for improving the quality of software, conventional
testing methods often fail to detect faults. Concolic testing attempts to remedy this by …

Industrial application of concolic testing on embedded software: Case studies

M Kim, Y Kim, Y Jang - 2012 IEEE Fifth International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current industrial testing practices often build test cases in a manual manner, which is slow
and ineffective. To alleviate this problem, concolic testing generates test cases that can …

Template-guided concolic testing via online learning

S Cha, S Lee, H Oh - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We present template-guided concolic testing, a new technique for effectively reducing the
search space in concolic testing. Addressing the path-explosion problem has been a …

Automated unit testing of large industrial embedded software using concolic testing

Y Kim, Y Kim, T Kim, G Lee, Y Jang… - 2013 28th IEEE/ACM …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current testing practice in industry is often ineffective and slow to detect bugs, since most
projects utilize manually generated test cases. Concolic testing alleviates this problem by …

Automatically generating search heuristics for concolic testing

S Cha, S Hong, J Lee, H Oh - … of the 40th International Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We present a technique to automatically generate search heuristics for concolic testing. A
key challenge in concolic testing is how to effectively explore the program's execution paths …

SCORE: a scalable concolic testing tool for reliable embedded software

Y Kim, M Kim - Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Current industrial testing practices often generate test cases in a manual manner, which
degrades both the effectiveness and efficiency of testing. To alleviate this problem, concolic …

A case study of concolic testing tools and their limitations

X Qu, B Robinson - 2011 International Symposium on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic testing, in particular test input generation, has become increasingly popular in the
research community over the past ten years. In this paper, we conduct a survey on existing …

Challenges and opportunities with concolic testing

R Kannavara, CJ Havlicek, B Chen… - 2015 national …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although concolic testing is increasingly being explored as a viable software verification
technique, its adoption in mainstream software development and testing in the industry is not …

Hybrid concolic testing

R Majumdar, K Sen - 29th International Conference on Software …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present hybrid concolic testing, an algorithm that interleaves random testing with
concolic execution to obtain both a deep and a wide exploration of program state space. Our …

Boosting concolic testing via interpolation

J Jaffar, V Murali, JA Navas - Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Concolic testing has been very successful in automatically generating test inputs for
programs. However one of its major limitations is path-explosion that limits the generation of …