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In this paper, we present Coyote C++, a fully automated white-box unit testing tool for C and C++. Whereas existing tools have struggled to realize unit test generation for C++, Coyote C++ is able to produce high coverage results from unit…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Sanghoon Rho , Philipp Martens , Seungcheol Shin , Yeoneo Kim

Testing is one of the most indispensable tasks in software engineering. The role of testing in software development has grown significantly because testing is able to reveal defects in the code in an early stage of development. Many unit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-12-07 Norbert Pataki

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

Concolic testing is a popular dynamic validation technique that can be used for both model checking and automatic test case generation. We have recently introduced concolic testing in the context of logic programming. In contrast to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet , German Vidal

Concolic testing is a popular software verification technique based on a combination of concrete and symbolic execution. Its main focus is finding bugs and generating test cases with the aim of maximizing code coverage. A previous approach…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet , German Vidal

Critical embedded systems (CES) have become ubiquitous in whether medical, automotive, or industrial. Software failures in such systems are potentially disastrous and could lead to serious consequences not only financially but also…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Hafsa Cheddadi , Saad Motahhir , Abdelaziz El Ghzizal

How can we perform concolic execution to generate highly structured test inputs for systematically testing parsing programs? Existing concolic execution engines are significantly restricted by (1) input structure-agnostic path constraint…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Haoxin Tu , Seongmin Lee , Yuxian Li , Peng Chen , Lingxiao Jiang , Marcel Böhme

Software testing is one of the most popular validation techniques in the software industry. Surprisingly, we can only find a few approaches to testing in the context of logic programming. In this paper, we introduce a systematic approach…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Fred Mesnard , Étienne Payet , Germán Vidal

Unit testing is crucial in software engineering for ensuring quality. However, it's not widely used in parallel and high-performance computing software, particularly scientific applications, due to their smaller, diverse user base and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Rabimba Karanjai , Aftab Hussain , Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin , Lei Xu , Weidong Shi , Mohammad Amin Alipour

Code coverage is a valuable guide for testing, but in AAA games the overhead of instrumentation conflicts with strict performance requirements and can destabilize automated tests. We propose and assess a selective instrumentation approach…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ian Gauk , Doriane Olewicki , Joshua Romoff , Cor-Paul Bezemer

In this paper, we aim at the automated unit coverage-based testing for embedded software. To achieve the goal, by analyzing the industrial requirements and our previous work on automated unit testing tool CAUT, we rebuild a new tool,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Chengyu Zhang , Yichen Yan , Hanru Zhou , Yinbo Yao , Ke Wu , Ting Su , Weikai Miao , Geguang Pu

With little to no parallel data available for programming languages, unsupervised methods are well-suited to source code translation. However, the majority of unsupervised machine translation approaches rely on back-translation, a method…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Baptiste Roziere , Jie M. Zhang , Francois Charton , Mark Harman , Gabriel Synnaeve , Guillaume Lample

Concolic testing is a promising method for generating test suites for large programs. However, it suffers from the path-explosion problem and often fails to find tests that cover difficult-to-reach parts of programs. In contrast, model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Przemysław Daca , Ashutosh Gupta , Thomas A. Henzinger

Developing software to effectively take advantage of growth in parallel and distributed processing capacity poses significant challenges. Traditional programming techniques allow a user to assume that execution, message passing, and memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Matthew Andres Moreno , Santiago Rodriguez Papa , Charles Ofria

GitHub Copilot is an artificially intelligent programming assistant used by many developers. While a few studies have evaluated the security risks of using Copilot, there has not been any study to show if it aids developers in producing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Daniel Erhabor , Sreeharsha Udayashankar , Meiyappan Nagappan , Samer Al-Kiswany

Concolic testing mixes symbolic and concrete execution to generate test cases covering paths effectively. Its benefits have been demonstrated for more than 15 years to test imperative programs. Other programming paradigms, like logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Sophie Fortz , Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet , Gilles Perrouin , Wim Vanhoof , German Vidal

Many legal computations, including the amount of tax owed by a citizen, whether they are eligible to social benefits, or the wages due to civil state servants, are specified by computational laws. Their application, however, is performed by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Pierre Goutagny , Aymeric Fromherz , Raphaël Monat

This paper presents the outcome of a research collaboration between academia and industry to implement and utilize the capabilities of constrained interaction testing for an open-source tool for industrial-scale application. The project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Jan Richter , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Miroslav Bures , Cleber R. Rosa Junior

Context: Software has become an innovative solution nowadays for many applications and methods in science and engineering. Ensuring the quality and correctness of software is challenging because each program has different configurations and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Bestoun S. Ahmed , Taib Sh. Abdulsamad , Moayad Y. Potrus

This paper presents the first concolic testing framework explicitly designed for quantum programs. The framework introduces quantum constraint generation methods for quantum control statements that quantify quantum states and offers a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shangzhou Xia , Jianjun Zhao , Fuyuan Zhang , Xiaoyu Guo
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