On Synergy of Metal, Slicing, and Symbolic Execution

Details On Synergy of Metal, Slicing, and Symbolic Execution On Synergy of Metal, Slicing, and Symbolic Execution

2012-01-23

arxiv.org/abs/1201.4719v1

Computer Science

Programming Languages

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We introduce a novel technique for finding real errors in programs. The technique is based on a synergy of three well-known methods: metacompilation, slicing, and symbolic execution. More precisely, we instrument a given program with a code that tracks runs of state machines representing various kinds of errors. Next we slice the program to reduce its size without affecting runs of state machines. And then we symbolically execute the sliced program. Depending on the kind of symbolic execution, the technique can be applied as a stand-alone bug finding technique, or to weed out some false positives from an output of another bug-finding tool. We provide several examples demonstrating the practical applicability of our technique.

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