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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Symbolic string execution

Redelinghuys, Gideon 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Symbolic execution is a well-established technique for automated test generation and for nding errors in complex code. Most of the focus has however been on programs that manipulate integers, booleans, and even, references in object-oriented programs. Recently researchers have started looking at programs that do lots of string processing, motivated, in part, by the popularity of the web and the risk that errors in web servers may lead to security violations. Attempts to extend symbolic execution to the domain of strings are mainly divided into one of two camps: automata-based approaches and approaches based on bitvector analysis. Here we investigate these two approaches in a uni ed setting, namely the symbolic execution framework of Java PathFinder. We describe the implementations of both approaches and then do an evaluation to show under what circumstances each approach performs well (or not so well). We also illustrate the usefulness of the symbolic execution of strings by nding errors in real-world examples. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Simboliese uitvoering is 'n bekende tegniek vir automatiese genereering van toetse en om foute te vind in ingewikkelde bronkode. Die fokus sover was grotendeels op programme wat gebruik maak van heelgetalle, boolse waardes en selfs verwysings in objek geörienteerde programme. Navorsers het onlangs begin kyk na programme wat baie gebruik maak van string prosessering, deelteliks gemotiveerd deur die populariteit van die web en die gepaardgaande risiko's daarvan. Vorige implementasies van simboliese string uitvoering word binne twee kampe verdeel: die automata gebaseerde benadering en bitvektoor gebaseerde benadering. Binne hierdie tesis word die twee benaderings onder een dak gebring, naamliks Java PathFinder. Die implentasie van beide benaderings word bespreek en ge-evalueer om die omstandighede uit te wys waarbinne elk beter sou vaar. Die nut van simboliese string uitvoering word geïllustreer deur dit toe te pas in foutiewe regte wêreld voorbeelde.

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