Efficient Synthesis of Method Call Sequences for Test Generation and Bounded VerificationVirtual
Modern programs are usually heap-based, where the programs manipulate heap-based data structures to perform computations. In software engineering tasks such as test generation and bounded verification, we need to determine the existence of a reachable heap state that satisfies a given specification, or construct the heap state by a sequence of calls to the public methods. Given the huge space combined from the methods and their arguments, the existing approaches typically adopt static analysis or heuristic search to explore only a small part of search space in the hope of finding the target state and target call sequence early on. However, these approaches do not have satisfactory performance on many real-world complex methods and specifications. In this paper, we propose an efficient synthesis algorithm for method call sequences, including an offline procedure for exploring all reachable heap states within a scope, and an online procedure for generating a method call sequence from the explored heap states to satisfy the given specification. To improve the efficiency of state exploration, we introduce a notion of abstract heap state for compactly representing heap states of the same structure and propose a strategy of merging structurally-isomorphic states. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach substantially outperforms the baselines in both test generation and bounded verification.
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