Generating Tests from Counterexamples

Dirk Beyer, Adam J. Chlipala, Thomas Henzinger, Ranjit Jhala, Rupak Majumdar. Generating Tests from Counterexamples. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'04), IEEE Computer Society Press. May 2004.

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We have extended the software model checker Blast to automatically generate test suites that guarantee full coverage with respect to a given predicate. More precisely, given a C program and a target predicate p, Blast determines the set L of program locations which program execution can reach with p true, and automatically generates a set of test vectors that exhibit the truth of p at all locations in L. We have used Blast to generate test suites and to detect dead code in C programs with up to 30K lines of code. The analysis and test-vector generation is fully automatic (no user intervention) and exact (no false positives).