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symbolic execution: a standalone construct

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Software engineering

a program analysis method that runs a program on symbolic inputs, building path conditions that describe the inputs following each path.

In software engineering, symbolic execution refers to a program analysis method that runs a program on symbolic inputs, building path conditions that describe the inputs following each path. This meaning comes from King (1976) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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References

King, J. C. (1976). Symbolic execution and program testing. Communications of the ACM, 19(7), 385-394. https://doi.org/10.1145/360248.360252

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