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Symbolic execution is at the core of many techniques for program analysis and test generation. Traditional symbolic execution of programs with numeric inputs enjoys the property of forking as many analysis traces as the number of analyzed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Pietro Braione , Giovanni Denaro , Luca Guglielmo

We present a framework for symbolically executing and model checking higher-order programs with external (open) methods. We focus on the client-library paradigm and in particular we aim to check libraries with respect to any definable…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Yu-Yang Lin , Nikos Tzevelekos

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

We explored the challenges practitioners face in software testing and proposed automated solutions to address these obstacles. We began with a survey of local software companies and 26 practitioners, revealing that the primary challenge is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Navid Bin Hasan , Md. Ashraful Islam , Junaed Younus Khan , Sanjida Senjik , Anindya Iqbal

Several recently proposed program logics have incorporated notions of underapproximation into their design, enabling them to reason about reachability rather than safety. In this paper, we explore how similar ideas can be integrated into an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhe Zhou , Ankush Desai , Benjamin Delaware , Suresh Jagannathan

Automated unit test generation is an established research field that has so far focused on statically-typed programming languages. The lack of type information in dynamically-typed programming languages, such as Python, inhibits test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Lukas Krodinger , Stephan Lukasczyk , Gordon Fraser

[Context:] Model-based testing is an instrument for automated generation of test cases. It requires identifying requirements in documents, understanding them syntactically and semantically, and then translating them into a test model. One…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Jannik Fischbach , Maximilian Junker , Andreas Vogelsang , Dietmar Freudenstein

We present a symbolic-execution-based algorithm that for a given program and a given program location produces a nontrivial necessary condition on input values to drive the program execution to the given location. We also propose an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Jan Strejček , Marek Trtík

Automated unit test generation is an established research field, and mature test generation tools exist for statically typed programming languages such as Java. It is, however, substantially more difficult to automatically generate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Stephan Lukasczyk , Florian Kroiß , Gordon Fraser

The high rate of false alarms from static analysis tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) complicates vulnerability detection in Solidity Smart Contracts, demanding methods that can formally or empirically prove the presence of defects.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ştefan-Claudiu Susan , Andrei Arusoaie , Dorel Lucanu

Automated software testing involves the execution of test scripts by a machine instead of being manually run. This significantly reduces the amount of manual time & effort needed and thus is of great interest to the software testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Anurag Dwarakanath , Neville Dubash , Sanjay Podder

With the growing popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineers' daily practices, it is important to ensure that the code generated by these tools is not only functionally correct but also free of vulnerabilities. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Mohammed Latif Siddiq , Joanna C. S. Santos , Sajith Devareddy , Anna Muller

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models are widely used across industrial design, simulation, and manufacturing processes. Text-to-CAD systems aim to generate editable, general-purpose CAD models from textual descriptions, significantly reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zheyuan Zhou , Jiayi Han , Liang Du , Naiyu Fang , Lemiao Qiu , Shuyou Zhang

Ensuring the safety and reliability of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) remains a critical challenge, as traditional verification methods such as large-scale on-road testing are prohibitively costly and time-consuming.To address…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ji Zhou , Yongqi Zhao , Yixian Hu , Hexuan Li , Zhengguo Gu , Nan Xu , Arno Eichberger

Symbolic execution detects vulnerabilities with precision, but applying it to large codebases requires harnesses that set up symbolic state, model dependencies, and specify assertions. Writing these harnesses has traditionally been a manual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Md Shafiuzzaman , Achintya Desai , Wenbo Guo , Tevfik Bultan

Software testing has received much attention over the last years and has reached such critical importance that agile software development practices put software testing at its core. Agile software development is successfully applied in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Tom-Robin Teschner

Cyber-physical systems like autonomous vehicles are tested in simulation before deployment, using domain-specific programs for scenario specification. To aid the testing of autonomous vehicles in simulation, we design a natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Rimvydas Rubavicius , Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone , Alex Lascarides , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Automatic code generation is to generate the program code according to the given natural language description. The current mainstream approach uses neural networks to encode natural language descriptions, and output abstract syntax trees…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Maosheng Zhong , Gen Liu , Hongwei Li , Jiangling Kuang , Jinshan Zeng , Mingwen Wang

The emergence of vibe coding, a paradigm where non-technical users instruct Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate executable codes via natural language, presents both significant opportunities and severe risks for the construction…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 S M Jamil Uddin

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are increasingly leveraged for generating both traditional software code and spreadsheet logic. Despite their impressive generative capabilities, these models frequently exhibit critical issues…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Simon Thorne , Advait Sarkar