Symbolic Execution and Quantitative Reasoning
eBook - PDF

Symbolic Execution and Quantitative Reasoning

Applications to Software Safety and Security

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Symbolic Execution and Quantitative Reasoning

Applications to Software Safety and Security

Book details
Table of contents
Citations

About This Book

This book reviews recent advances in symbolic execution and its probabilistic variant and discusses how they can be used to ensure the safety and security of software systems. Symbolic execution is a systematic program analysis technique which explores multiple program behaviors all at once by collecting and solving symbolic constraints collected from the branching conditions in the program. The obtained solutions can be used as test inputs that execute feasible program paths. Symbolic execution has found many applications in various domains, such as security, smartphone applications, operating systems, databases, and more recently deep neural networks, uncovering subtle errors and unknown vulnerabilities. We review here the technique has also been extended to reason about algorithmic complexity and resource consumption.

Furthermore, symbolic execution has been recently extended with probabilistic reasoning, allowing one to reason about quantitative properties of software systems. The approach computes the conditions to reach target program events of interest and uses model counting to quantify the fraction of the input domain satisfying these conditions thus computing the probability of event occurrence. This probabilistic information can be used for example to compute the reliability of an aircraft controller under different wind conditions (modeled probabilistically) or to quantify the leakage of sensitive data in a software system, using information theory metrics such as Shannon entropy.

This book is intended for students and software engineers who are interested in advanced techniques for testing and verifying software systems.

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes, you can access Symbolic Execution and Quantitative Reasoning by Corina S. P?s?reanu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Engineering General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2022
ISBN
9783031025518
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Engineering General
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1 Introduction
  7. 2 Symbolic Execution: The Basics
  8. 3 Symbolic Complexity Analysis
  9. 4 Probabilistic Reasoning
  10. 5 Side-Channel Analysis
  11. 6 Conclusion and Directions for the Future
  12. Bibliography
  13. Author’s Biography