Binary-Level Testing of Embedded Programs

Sébastien Bardin (1) , Philippe Baufreton (2) , Nicolas Cornuet (3) , Philippe Herrmann (1) , Sébastien Labbé (3)

1 DILS - Département Ingénierie Logiciels et Systèmes
2 SAGEM Défense Sécurité [Massy]
3 EDF - EDF

Dynamic Symbolic Execution (DSE) is a powerful approach to automatic test data generation. It has been heavily used in recent years for finding bugs in desktop programs. In this article, we discuss the use of binary-level DSE for testing safety-critical embedded systems. More especially, we present several innovative features implemented in our DSE tool OSMOSE, and we show through four case-studies how these features can be used in practical situations.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]

Sébastien Bardin, Philippe Baufreton, Nicolas Cornuet, Philippe Herrmann, Sébastien Labbé. Binary-Level Testing of Embedded Programs. 2013 13th International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC), Jul 2013, Najing, China. ⟨10.1109/QSIC.2013.49⟩. ⟨cea-01836221⟩