A survey of symbolic execution techniques

R Baldoni, E Coppa, DC D'elia, C Demetrescu… - ACM Computing …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Verx: Safety verification of smart contracts

A Permenev, D Dimitrov, P Tsankov… - … IEEE symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present VerX, the first automated verifier able to prove functional properties of Ethereum
smart contracts. VerX addresses an important problem as all real-world contracts must …

State of the art: Dynamic symbolic execution for automated test generation

T Chen, X Zhang, S Guo, H Li, Y Wu - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
Dynamic symbolic execution for automated test generation consists of instrumenting and
running a program while collecting path constraint on inputs from predicates encountered in …

Sailfish: Vetting smart contract state-inconsistency bugs in seconds

P Bose, D Das, Y Chen, Y Feng… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents SAILFISH, a scalable system for automatically finding state-
inconsistency bugs in smart contracts. To make the analysis tractable, we introduce a hybrid …

An orchestrated survey of methodologies for automated software test case generation

S Anand, EK Burke, TY Chen, J Clark… - Journal of systems and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Test case generation is among the most labour-intensive tasks in software testing. It also has
a strong impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of software testing. For these reasons, it …

[PDF][PDF] Klee: unassisted and automatic generation of high-coverage tests for complex systems programs.

C Cadar, D Dunbar, DR Engler - OSDI, 2008 - usenix.org
We present a new symbolic execution tool, KLEE, capable of automatically generating tests
that achieve high coverage on a diverse set of complex and environmentally-intensive …

Perffuzz: Automatically generating pathological inputs

C Lemieux, R Padhye, K Sen, D Song - Proceedings of the 27th ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Performance problems in software can arise unexpectedly when programs are provided with
inputs that exhibit worst-case behavior. A large body of work has focused on diagnosing …

Automated concolic testing of smartphone apps

S Anand, M Naik, MJ Harrold, H Yang - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
We present an algorithm and a system for generating input events to exercise smartphone
apps. Our approach is based on concolic testing and generates sequences of events …

Code obfuscation against symbolic execution attacks

S Banescu, C Collberg, V Ganesh… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Code obfuscation is widely used by software developers to protect intellectual property, and
malware writers to hamper program analysis. However, there seems to be little work on …

From start-ups to scale-ups: Opportunities and open problems for static and dynamic program analysis

M Harman, P O'Hearn - 2018 IEEE 18Th international working …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes some of the challenges and opportunities when deploying static and
dynamic analysis at scale, drawing on the authors' experience with the Infer and Sapienz …