Abstracting Path Conditions
Abstract
We present a symbolic-execution-based algorithm that for a given program and a given program location produces a nontrivial necessary condition on input values to drive the program execution to the given location. We also propose an application of necessary conditions in contemporary bug-finding and test-generation tools. Experimental results show that the presented technique can significantly improve performance of the tools.
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