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We introduce a grey-box conformance testing method for networks of interconnected Mealy Machines. This approach addresses the scenario where all interfaces of the component under test are observable, but its inputs are under the control of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Alberto Larrauri , Roderick Bloem

Automatic test generation typically aims to generate inputs that explore new paths in the program under test in order to find bugs. Existing work has, therefore, focused on guiding the exploration toward program parts that are more likely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Valentin Wüstholz , Maria Christakis

Branch coverage of source code is a very widely used test criterion. Moreover, branch coverage is a similar problem to line coverage, MC/DC and the coverage of assertion violations, certain runtime errors and various other types of test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Nicky Williams

The ability to model, analyze, and predict execution time of computations is an important building block supporting numerous efforts, such as load balancing, performance optimization, and automated performance tuning for high performance,…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-06-22 James D. Stevens , Andreas Klöckner

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs), due to their event driven nature, present a potentially unbounded space of all possible ways to interact with software. During testing it becomes necessary to effectively sample this space. In this paper we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Stephan Arlt , Ishan Banerjee , Cristiano Bertolini , Atif M. Memon , Martin Schäf

Concolic testing is a test generation technique which works effectively by integrating random testing generation and symbolic execution. Existing concolic testing engines focus on numeric programs. Heap-manipulating programs make extensive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Long H. Pham , Quang Loc Le , Quoc-Sang Phan , Jun Sun

We consider gray-box fuzzing of a program instrumented such that information about evaluation of program expressions converting values of numerical types to Boolean, like x <= y, is recorded during each program's execution. Given that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Martin Jonáš , Jan Strejček , Marek Trtík

Verification is a critical process for ensuring the correctness of modern processors. The increasing complexity of processor designs and the emergence of new instruction set architectures (ISAs) like RISC-V have created demands for more…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yang Zhong , Haoran Wu , Xueqi Li , Sa Wang , David Boland , Yungang Bao , Kan Shi

Sparse Tensor Compilers (STCs) have emerged as critical infrastructure for optimizing high-dimensional data analytics and machine learning workloads. The STCs must synthesize complex, irregular control flow for various compressed storage…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kabilan Mahathevan , Yining Zhang , Muhammad Ali Gulzar , Kirshanthan Sundararajah

Software testing is a critical aspect of software development, yet generating test cases remains a routine task for engineers. This paper presents a benchmark, CLOVER, to evaluate models' capabilities in generating and completing test cases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jiacheng Xu , Bo Pang , Jin Qu , Hiroaki Hayashi , Caiming Xiong , Yingbo Zhou

This paper presents a coverage-guided grammar-based fuzzing technique for automatically generating a corpus of concise test inputs for programs such as compilers. We walk-through a case study of a compiler designed for education and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Vasudev Vikram , Rohan Padhye , Koushik Sen

Engineering complex systems (aircraft, buildings, vehicles) requires coordinating geometric and performance couplings across subsystems. As generative models proliferate for specialized domains, a key research gap is how to coordinate…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Tim Aebersold , Soheyl Massoudi , Mark D. Fuge

SystemC-based virtual prototypes have emerged as widely adopted tools to test software ahead of hardware availability, reducing the time-to-market and improving software reliability. Recently, fuzzing has become a popular method for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Chiara Ghinami , Jonas Winzer , Nils Bosbach , Lennart M. Reimann , Lukas Jünger , Simon Wörner , Rainer Leupers

The control logic models built by Simulink or Ptolemy have been widely used in industry scenes. It is an urgent need to ensure the safety and security of the control logic models. Test case generation technologies are widely used to ensure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yixiao Yang

In recent years, there has been a notable surge in attention towards hardware security, driven by the increasing complexity and integration of processors, SoCs, and third-party IPs aimed at delivering advanced solutions. However, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Raghul Saravanan , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

In recent years, fuzzing has been widely applied not only to application software but also to system software, including the Linux kernel and firmware, and has become a powerful technique for vulnerability discovery. Among these approaches,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masami Ichikawa

Code coverage has been used in the software testing context mostly as a metric to assess a generated test suite's quality. Recently, code coverage analysis is used as a white-box testing technique for test optimization. Most of the research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Krystof Sykora , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Miroslav Bures

The effectiveness of concolic testing deteriorates as the size of programs increases. A promising way out is to test programs modularly, e.g., on a per function or class basis. Alas, this idea hits a roadblock in modern programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Shu-Hung You , Robert Bruce Findler , Christos Dimoulas

The hallucination of code generation models hinders their applicability to systems requiring higher safety standards. One critical bottleneck in addressing code hallucination is the difficulty of identifying the functional correctness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jaewoo Jeong , Taesoo Kim , Sangdon Park

Deep generative models like GAN and VAE have shown impressive results in generating unconstrained objects like images. However, many design settings arising in industrial design, material science, computer graphics and more require that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Aaron Ferber , Arman Zharmagambetov , Taoan Huang , Bistra Dilkina , Yuandong Tian