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Model-based mutation testing uses altered test models to derive test cases that are able to reveal whether a modelled fault has been implemented. This requires conformance checking between the original and the mutated model. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Bernhard K. Aichernig , Elisabeth Jöbstl

This paper focuses on generating test cases from timed symbolic transition systems. At the heart of the generation process are symbolic execution techniques on data and time. Test cases look like finite symbolic trees with verdicts on their…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Boutheina Bannour , Arnault Lapitre , Pascale Le Gall , Thang Nguyen

Symbolic equations are at the core of scientific discovery. The task of discovering the underlying equation from a set of input-output pairs is called symbolic regression. Traditionally, symbolic regression methods use hand-designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Luca Biggio , Tommaso Bendinelli , Alexander Neitz , Aurelien Lucchi , Giambattista Parascandolo

Symbolic execution is an important software analysis technique which benefits downstream tasks such as software testing and debugging. However, several limitations hinder symbolic execution from application on real-world software. One of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wenhan Wang , Kaibo Liu , Zeyu Sun , An Ran Chen , Ge Li , Gang Huang , Lei Ma

With advances in quantum computing, researchers can now write and run many quantum programs. However, there is still a lack of effective methods for debugging quantum programs. In this paper, quantum symbolic execution (QSE) is proposed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Jiang Nan , Wang Zichen , Wang Jian

A virtual try-on method takes a product image and an image of a model and produces an image of the model wearing the product. Most methods essentially compute warps from the product image to the model image and combine using image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Kedan Li , Min Jin Chong , Jingen Liu , David Forsyth

Remote and hybrid work have transformed how software development teams organize, communicate, and assure quality. This study investigates how regression testing is performed and experienced under these distributed conditions. Using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Juliane Pascoal , Cleytton Magalhaes , Ronnie de Souza Santos

Symbolic execution is a classical program analysis technique used to show that programs satisfy or violate given specifications. In this work we generalize symbolic execution to support program analysis for relational specifications in the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Gian Pietro Farina , Stephen Chong , Marco Gaboardi

Software developed using modern agile practices delivers a stream of software versions that require continuous regression testing rather than testing once close to the delivery or maintenance phase, as assumed by classical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Suddhasvatta Das , Kevin Gary

In this thesis, we introduce the idea of combining symbolic execution with dynamic analysis for reverse engineering. Differently from DSE, we devise an approach where the reverse engineer can use a debugger to drive and inspect a concrete…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Andrea Fioraldi

Automating scientific discovery has been a grand goal of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and will bring tremendous societal impact. Learning symbolic expressions from experimental data is a vital step in AI-driven scientific discovery. Despite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Nan Jiang , Md Nasim , Yexiang Xue

In so-called constraint-based testing, symbolic execution is a common technique used as a part of the process to generate test data for imperative programs. Databases are ubiquitous in software and testing of programs manipulating databases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Michaël Marcozzi , Wim Vanhoof , Jean-Luc Hainaut

Hybrid systems exhibit both continuous and discrete behavior. Analyzing hybrid systems is known to be hard. Inspired by the idea of concolic testing (of programs), we investigate whether we can combine random sampling and symbolic execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Pingfan Kong , Yi Li , Xiaohong Chen , Jun Sun , Meng Sun , Jingyi Wang

We present a novel method for testing the safety of self-driving vehicles in simulation. We propose an alternative to sensor simulation, as sensor simulation is expensive and has large domain gaps. Instead, we directly simulate the outputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Kelvin Wong , Qiang Zhang , Ming Liang , Bin Yang , Renjie Liao , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

Memory corruption is a serious class of software vulnerabilities, which requires careful attention to be detected and removed from applications before getting exploited and harming the system users. Symbolic execution is a well-known method…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sara Baradaran , Mahdi Heidari , Ali Kamali , Maryam Mouzarani

Virtual Prototypes (VPs) are important tools in modern hardware development. At high abstractions, they are often implemented in SystemC and offer early analysis of increasingly complex designs. These complex designs often combine one or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Karl Aaron Rudkowski , Sallar Ahmadi-Pour , Rolf Drechsler

Symbolic execution is an effective path oriented and constraint based program analysis technique. Recently, there is a significant development in the research and application of symbolic execution. However, symbolic execution still suffers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Yufeng Zhang , Zhenbang Chen , Ji Wang

Model checking is a powerful technique for software verification. However, the approach notably suffers from the infamous state space explosion problem. To tackle this, in this paper, we introduce a novel symbolic method for encoding Petri…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Damien Morard , Lucas Donati , Didier Buchs

We propose a new statistical hypothesis testing framework which decides visually, using confidence intervals, whether the means of two samples are equal or if one is larger than the other. With our method, the user can at the same time…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Timothée Mathieu

Symbolic execution is a classic technique for systematic bug finding, which has seen many applications in recent years but remains hard to scale. Recent work introduced ranged symbolic execution to distribute the symbolic execution task…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Shikhar Singh , Sarfraz Khurshid