Constraint solving techniques for software testing and analysis

Feifei Ma

Abstract: Software testing and analysis are very important research topics in software engineering. We are interested in improving the accuracy of analysis, as well as automation of test generation. In particular, we have been working on the automatic generation of small Orthogonal Arrays which can be used for combinatorial testing, and the computation of path execution frequency for a program path. The basic idea is to reduce the original problems to constraint satisfaction problems and develop effective constraint solving techniques for solving the problems.