Symbiotic 8: Parallel and Targeted Test Generation

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Authors

CHALUPA Marek NOVÁK Jakub STREJČEK Jan

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering - 24th International Conference, FASE 2021, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, March 27 - April 1, 2021, Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Web https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-71500-7_20
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71500-7_20
Keywords test generation; test coverage; Symbiotic
Description The setup of Symbiotic 8 for Test-Comp 2021 brings radical changes in the test generation for coverage-branches property. Similarly as in Symbiotic 7, we generate tests by running our fork of symbolic executor Klee on the analyzed program. Symbiotic 8, however, runs several instances of Klee in parallel. We run one instance of Klee on the original program and, simultaneously, we create one (intentionally unsound) program slice for every program-terminating instruction in the program and run Klee on these slices. Apart from this principal change, we also improved other components of the tool, mainly the program slicer. Further, our fork of Klee now supports symbolic pointer arithmetics and comparison of symbolic addresses.
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