Many security and software testing applications require checking whether certain properties
of a program hold for any possible usage scenario. For instance, a tool for identifying …

Symbolic execution for software testing Page 1 82 communicaTionS of The acm | february
2013 | vol. 56 | no. 2 review articles ill us tra tion b y marius w a tz sYMBoliC eXeCUtioN has …

Software bugs are a well-known source of security vulnerabilities. One technique for finding
bugs, symbolic execution, considers all possible inputs to a program but suffers from …

We present MergePoint, a new binary-only symbolic execution system for large-scale and
fully unassisted testing of commodity off-the-shelf (COTS) software. MergePoint introduces …

Symbolic PathFinder (SPF) is a software analysis tool that combines symbolic execution with
model checking for automated test case generation and error detection in Java bytecode …

The aggressive optimization of floating-point computations is an important problem in high-
performance computing. Unfortunately, floating-point instruction sets have complicated …

Programs written for GPUs often contain correctness errors such as races, deadlocks, or
may compute the wrong result. Existing debugging tools often miss these errors because of …

It is well-known that floating-point exceptions can be disastrous and writing exception-free
numerical programs is very difficult. Thus, it is important to automatically detect such errors …

Symbolic execution is a powerful program analysis technique that systematically explores
multiple program paths. However, despite important technical advances, symbolic execution …

Processor emulators are widely used to provide isolation and instrumentation of binary
software. However they have proved difficult to implement correctly: processor specifications …