Many security and software testing applications require checking whether certain properties
of a program hold for any possible usage scenario. For instance, a tool for identifying …

In recent years, fuzz testing has proven itself to be one of the most effective techniques for
finding correctness bugs and security vulnerabilities in practice. One particular fuzz testing …

We present VerX, the first automated verifier able to prove functional properties of Ethereum
smart contracts. VerX addresses an important problem as all real-world contracts must …

Mutation testing realizes the idea of using artificial defects to support testing activities.
Mutation is typically used as a way to evaluate the adequacy of test suites, to guide the …

Dynamic symbolic execution for automated test generation consists of instrumenting and
running a program while collecting path constraint on inputs from predicates encountered in …

Symbolic execution for software testing Page 1 82 communicaTionS of The acm | february
2013 | vol. 56 | no. 2 review articles ill us tra tion b y marius w a tz sYMBoliC eXeCUtioN has …

Debugging consumes significant time and effort in any major software development project.
Moreover, even after the root cause of a bug is identified, fixing the bug is non-trivial. Given …

Android phones often carry personal information, attracting malicious developers to embed
code in Android applications to steal sensitive data. With known techniques in the literature …

Software bugs are a well-known source of security vulnerabilities. One technique for finding
bugs, symbolic execution, considers all possible inputs to a program but suffers from …

Pex automatically produces a small test suite with high code coverage for a. NET program.
To this end, Pex performs a systematic program analysis (using dynamic symbolic …