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Memoise: a tool for memoized symbolic execution

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Guowei Yang,

Sarfraz Khurshid,

Corina S. PăsăreanuAuthors Info & Claims

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This tool paper presents a tool for performing memoized symbolic execution (Memoise), an approach we developed in previous work for more efficient application of symbolic execution. The key idea in Memoise is to allow re-use of symbolic execution results across different runs of symbolic execution without having to re-compute previously computed results as done in earlier approaches. Specifically, Memoise builds a trie-based data structure to record path exploration information during a run of symbolic execution, optimizes the trie for the next run, and re-uses the resulting trie during the next run. Our tool optimizes symbolic execution in three standard scenarios where it is commonly applied: iterative deepening, regression analysis, and heuristic search. Our tool Memoise builds on the Symbolic PathFinder framework to provide more efficient symbolic execution of Java programs and is available online for download. The tool demonstration video is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppfYOB0Z2vY.

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Sen KNecula GGong LChoi WDi Nitto EHarman MHeymans P(2015)MultiSE: multi-path symbolic execution using value summariesProceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering10.1145/2786805.2786830(842-853)Online publication date: 30-Aug-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2786805.2786830
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2635868.2635889
Luckow KPăsăreanu C(2014)Symbolic PathFinder v7ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/2557833.256057139:1(1-5)Online publication date: 11-Feb-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2557833.2560571

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Sen KNecula GGong LChoi WDi Nitto EHarman MHeymans P(2015)MultiSE: multi-path symbolic execution using value summariesProceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering10.1145/2786805.2786830(842-853)Online publication date: 30-Aug-2015
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Dinges PAgha GCheung SOrso AStorey M(2014)Solving complex path conditions through heuristic search on induced polytopesProceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering10.1145/2635868.2635889(425-436)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2635868.2635889
Luckow KPăsăreanu C(2014)Symbolic PathFinder v7ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/2557833.256057139:1(1-5)Online publication date: 11-Feb-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2557833.2560571

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