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Automated coverage-driven testing: combining symbolic execution and model checking

自动化覆盖驱动测试: 符号执行和模型检查的混合方法

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软件测试是工业界最常用的软件验证技术, 而白盒测试是最基础的软件测试方法。 为了提高白盒测试有效性, 本文创新性地提出了一种混合的覆盖驱动测试方法, 它接受一个待测程序和目标覆盖准则为输入, 然后为可达的测试对象自动生成测试用例, 同时也检测出不可达的测试对象。 本文将驱动测试问题转化为特定路径的寻找问题, 提出了带引导的符号执行技术和增强的模型检查技术, 最终又将两项技术结合在一起, 进一步提高测试覆盖率并降低测试时间, 实现优势互补。

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  1. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China

    Ting Su, Geguang Pu, Weikai Miao & Jifeng He

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA

    Zhendong Su

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Su, T., Pu, G., Miao, W. et al. Automated coverage-driven testing: combining symbolic execution and model checking. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 59, 98101 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-016-5589-6

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