Automated Software Test Data Generation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The chaining approach for software test data generation
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Automated test data generation using an iterative relaxation method
SIGSOFT '98/FSE-6 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Using model checking to generate tests from requirements specifications
ESEC/FSE-7 Proceedings of the 7th European software engineering conference held jointly with the 7th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Symbolic execution and program testing
Communications of the ACM
A Discipline of Programming
Korat: automated testing based on Java predicates
ISSTA '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program Analysis & Transformation
Proceedings of the international symposium on Code generation and optimization: feedback-directed and runtime optimization
Test input generation with java PathFinder
ISSTA '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Check 'n' crash: combining static checking and testing
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
DART: directed automated random testing
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
CUTE: a concolic unit testing engine for C
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Vigilante: end-to-end containment of internet worms
Proceedings of the twentieth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Towards Automatic Generation of Vulnerability-Based Signatures
SP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)
EXE: automatically generating inputs of death
Proceedings of the 13th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Dynamic test input generation for database applications
Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Staged deployment in mirage, an integrated software upgrade testing and distribution system
Proceedings of twenty-first ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating systems principles
Better bug reporting with better privacy
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Differential symbolic execution
Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Test-Suite Augmentation for Evolving Software
ASE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Directed Test Suite Augmentation
APSEC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Execution synthesis: a technique for automated software debugging
Proceedings of the 5th European conference on Computer systems
Pex: white box test generation for .NET
TAP'08 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tests and proofs
Has the bug really been fixed?
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
Factors affecting the use of genetic algorithms in test suite augmentation
Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
KLEE: unassisted and automatic generation of high-coverage tests for complex systems programs
OSDI'08 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
Parallel symbolic execution for automated real-world software testing
Proceedings of the sixth conference on Computer systems
Directed incremental symbolic execution
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
eXpress: guided path exploration for efficient regression test generation
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Statically-directed dynamic automated test generation
Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering
SAS'11 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Static analysis
Execution generated test cases: how to make systems code crash itself
SPIN'05 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Model Checking Software
Test data regeneration: generating new test data from existing test data
Software Testing, Verification & Reliability
BugRedux: reproducing field failures for in-house debugging
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
make test-zesti: a symbolic execution solution for improving regression testing
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
High-coverage symbolic patch testing
SPIN'12 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Model Checking Software
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One of the distinguishing characteristics of software systems is that they evolve: new patches are committed to software repositories and new versions are released to users on a continuous basis. Unfortunately, many of these changes bring unexpected bugs that break the stability of the system or affect its security. In this paper, we address this problem using a technique for automatically testing code patches. Our technique combines symbolic execution with several novel heuristics based on static and dynamic program analysis which allow it to quickly reach the code of the patch. We have implemented our approach in a tool called KATCH, which we have applied to all the patches written in a combined period of approximately six years for nineteen mature programs from the popular GNU diffutils, GNU binutils and GNU findutils utility suites, which are shipped with virtually all UNIX-based distributions. Our results show that KATCH can automatically synthesise inputs that significantly increase the patch coverage achieved by the existing manual test suites, and find bugs at the moment they are introduced.