Symbolic Execution and Program Testing.

King, J. C. (1976). Symbolic Execution and Program Testing. Communications of the ACM, 385-394.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1976

Pages

385-394

DOI

10.1145/360248.360252

DOI registrant

Association for Computing Machinery

Link

https://research.ibm.com/publications/symbolic-execution-and-program-testing

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Symbolic Execution
  • Assignments transform expressions; a symbolic branch forks the state and conjoins the branch predicate to one successor and its negation to the other; a satisfiability solver rejects infeasible successors or produces concrete witnesses for feasible ones.

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