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Concolic testing in logic programming*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2015

FRED MESNARD ,
ÉTIENNE PAYET  and
GERMÁN VIDAL
FRED MESNARD
Affiliation:
LIM - Université de la Réunion, France (e-mail: fred@univ-reunion.fr, epayet@univ-reunion.fr)
ÉTIENNE PAYET
Affiliation:
LIM - Université de la Réunion, France (e-mail: fred@univ-reunion.fr, epayet@univ-reunion.fr)
GERMÁN VIDAL
Affiliation:
MiST, DSIC, Universitat Politècnica de València (e-mail: gvidal@dsic.upv.es)
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Abstract

Software testing is one of the most popular validation techniques in the software industry. Surprisingly, we can only find a few approaches to testing in the context of logic programming. In this paper, we introduce a systematic approach for dynamic testing that combines both concrete and symbolic execution. Our approach is fully automatic and guarantees full path coverage when it terminates. We prove some basic properties of our technique and illustrate its practical usefulness through a prototype implementation.

Keywords

Symbolic executionlogic programmingtesting

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Regular Papers
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 15 , Special Issue 4-5: 31st International Conference on Logic Programming , July 2015 , pp. 711 - 725
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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Footnotes

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This work has been partially supported by the EU (FEDER) and the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad under grant TIN2013-44742-C4-1-R and by the Generalitat Valenciana under grant PROMETEOII/2015/013. Part of this research was done while the third author was visiting the University of Reunion; G. Vidal gratefully acknowledges their hospitality.

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