Evaluating initial inputs for concolic testing

W Wang, Q Zeng - 2015 International Symposium on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Concolic testing is a powerful technique for vulnerability detection. Current concolic testing
tools usually randomly select one well-formed concrete input to start their workflow, then …

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 …

Concolic testing framework for industrial embedded software

T Kim, J Park, I Kulida, Y Jang - 2014 21st Asia-Pacific …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, concolic testing has drawn a lot of attention from the research community as a
practical solution of overcoming limitations of manual test case generation. CONBOL, a …

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 …

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 …

Goal-oriented concolic testing

IS Chung, JK Park - Journal of KIISE: Software and Applications, 2010 - koreascience.kr
Concolic testing generates test data by combining concrete program execution and symbolic
execution to achieve high test coverage. CREST is a representative open-source test tool …

Towards Quantification and Visualization of the Effects of Concretization During Concolic Testing

S Tempel, V Herdt, R Drechsler - IEEE Embedded Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Concolic testing is a software testing technique, which improves the scalability of symbolic
execution by allowing efficient concretization of symbolic expressions. Concretization …

Industrial application of concolic testing approach: A case study on libexif by using CREST-BV and KLEE

Y Kim, M Kim, YJ Kim, Y Jang - 2012 34th International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As smartphones become popular, manufacturers such as Samsung Electronics are
developing smartphones with rich functionality such as a camera and photo editing quickly …

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 …

Towards optimal concolic testing

X Wang, J Sun, Z Chen, P Zhang, J Wang… - Proceedings of the 40th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Concolic testing integrates concrete execution (eg, random testing) and symbolic execution
for test case generation. It is shown to be more cost-effective than random testing or …