Automating Software Testing Using Program Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Patrice Godefroid;Peli de Halleux;Aditya V. Nori;Sriram K. Rajamani;Wolfram Schulte;Nikolai Tillmann;Michael Y. Levin

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research India;Microsoft Research India;Microsoft Research;Microsoft Research;Microsoft Center for Software Excellence

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

During the last 10 years, code inspection for standard programming errors has largely been automated with static code analysis. During the next 10 years, we expect to see similar progress in automating testing, and specifically test generation, thanks to advances in program analysis, efficient constraint solvers, and powerful computers. Three new tools from Microsoft combine techniques from static program analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking, and automated constraint solving while targeting different application domains.