2024

• Effective Fuzzing within CI/CD Pipelines (Registered Report)

  Arindam Sharma, Cristian Cadar, Jonathan Metzman

  International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING 2024)

• Sparse Symbolic Loop Execution (Registered Report)

  Frank Busse, Martin Nowack, Cristian Cadar

  International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING 2024)

2023

• Grammar Mutation for Testing Input Parsers (Registered Report)

  Bachir Bendrissou, Cristian Cadar, Alastair Donaldson

  International Fuzzing Workshop (FUZZING 2023)

• GrayC: Greybox Fuzzing of Compilers and Analysers for C

  Karine Even-Mendoza, Arindam Sharma, Alastair Donaldson, Cristian Cadar

  ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2023)

• KDAlloc: The KLEE Deterministic Allocator

  Daniel Schemmel, Julian Büning, Frank Busse, Martin Nowack, Cristian Cadar

  Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2023)

• Patch Specifications via Product Programs

  Cristian Cadar, Daniel Schemmel, Arindam Sharma

  2023 International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering (FormaliSE 2023)

2022

• Combining Static Analysis Error Traces with Dynamic Symbolic Execution (Experience Paper)

  Frank Busse, Pritam Gharat, Cristian Cadar, Alastair Donaldson

  ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2022)

• SnapFuzz: High-Throughput Fuzzing of Network Applications

  Anastasios Andronidis, Cristian Cadar

  ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2022)

• A Deterministic Memory Allocator for Dynamic Symbolic Execution

  Daniel Schemmel, Julian Büning, Frank Busse, Martin Nowack, Cristian Cadar

  36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)

• CsmithEdge: More Effective Compiler Testing by Handling Undefined Behaviour Less Conservatively

  Karine Even-Mendoza, Cristian Cadar, Alastair Donaldson

  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE 2022)

• SaBRe: Load-time Selective Binary Rewriting

  Paul-Antoine Arras, Anastasios Andronidis, Luís Pina, Karolis Mituzas, Qianyi Shu, Daniel Grumberg, Cristian Cadar

  International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT 2022)

2021

• Fuzzing: Challenges and Reflections

  Marcel Böhme, Cristian Cadar, Abhik Roychoudhury

  IEEE Software (2021)

2020

• Past-Sensitive Pointer Analysis for Symbolic Execution

  David Trabish, Timotej Kapus, Noam Rinetzky, Cristian Cadar

  European Software Engineering Conference / ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2020)

• Pending Constraints in Symbolic Execution for Better Exploration and Seeding

  Timotej Kapus, Frank Busse, Cristian Cadar

  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2020)

• Closer to the Edge: Testing Compilers More Thoroughly by Being Less Conservative About Undefined Behaviour

  Karine Even-Mendoza, Cristian Cadar, Alastair Donaldson

  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results Track (ASE-NIER 2020)

• Running Symbolic Execution Forever

  Frank Busse, Martin Nowack, Cristian Cadar

  ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2020)

• KLEE Symbolic Execution Engine in 2019

  Cristian Cadar, Martin Nowack

  International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (2020)

2019

• Fine-grain Memory Object Representation in Symbolic Execution

  Martin Nowack

  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019)

• Constraints in Dynamic Symbolic Execution: Bitvectors or Integers?

  Timotej Kapus, Martin Nowack, Cristian Cadar

  International Conference on Tests and Proofs (TAP 2019)

• Compiler Fuzzing: How Much Does It Matter?

  Michael Marcozzi, Qiyi Tang, Alastair Donaldson, Cristian Cadar

  Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (OOPSLA 2019)

• Just Fuzz It: Solving Floating-point Constraints Using Coverage-guided Fuzzing

  Daniel Liew, Cristian Cadar, Alastair Donaldson, J. Ryan Stinnett

  European Software Engineering Conference / ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2019)

• A Segmented Memory Model for Symbolic Execution

  Timotej Kapus, Cristian Cadar

  European Software Engineering Conference / ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2019)

• Computing Summaries of String Loops in C for Better Testing and Refactoring

  Timotej Kapus, Oren Ish-Shalom, Shachar Itzhaky, Noam Rinetzky, Cristian Cadar

  ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2019)

• Mvedsua: Higher Availability Dynamic Software Updates via Multi-Version Execution

  Luís Pina, Anastasios Andronidis, Michael Hicks, Cristian Cadar

  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2019)

2018

• On the Correctness of Electronic Documents: Studying, Finding, and Localizing Inconsistency Bugs in PDF Readers and Files

  Tomasz Kuchta, Thibaud Lutellier, Edmund Wong, Lin Tan, Cristian Cadar

  Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE 2018)

• PARTI: A Multi-interval Theory Solver for Symbolic Execution

  Oscar Soria Dustmann, Klaus Wehrle, Cristian Cadar

  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2018)

• Shadow Symbolic Execution for Testing Software Patches

  Tomasz Kuchta, Hristina Palikareva, Cristian Cadar

  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM 2018)

• FreeDA: Deploying Incompatible Stock Dynamic Analyses in Production via Multi-Version Execution

  Luís Pina, Anastasios Andronidis, Cristian Cadar

  ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF 2018)

• Chopped Symbolic Execution

  David Trabish, Andrea Mattavelli, Noam Rinetzky, Cristian Cadar

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018)

2017

• Automatic Testing of Symbolic Execution Engines via Program Generation and Differential Testing

  Timotej Kapus, Cristian Cadar

  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2017)

• Floating-Point Symbolic Execution: A Case Study in N-version Programming

  Daniel Liew, Daniel Schemmel, Cristian Cadar, Alastair Donaldson, Rafael Zähl, Klaus Wehrle

  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2017)

• Accelerating Array Constraints in Symbolic Execution

  David M. Perry, Andrea Mattavelli, Xiangyu Zhang, Cristian Cadar

  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017)

• A DSL Approach to Reconcile Equivalent Divergent Program Executions

  Luís Pina, Daniel Grumberg, Anastasios Andronidis, Cristian Cadar

  USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 2017)

2016

• Analysing the Program Analyser

  Cristian Cadar, Alastair Donaldson

  International Conference on Software Engineering, Visions of 2025 and Beyond Track (ICSE V2025)

• Shadow of a Doubt: Testing for Divergences Between Software Versions

  Hristina Palikareva, Tomasz Kuchta, Cristian Cadar

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016)

• Symbooglix: A Symbolic Execution Engine for Boogie Programs

  Daniel Liew, Cristian Cadar, Alastair Donaldson

  IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST 2016)

2015

• Towards Deployment-Time Dynamic Analysis of Server Applications

  Luís Pina, Cristian Cadar

  International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA 2015)

• Targeted Program Transformations for Symbolic Execution

  Cristian Cadar

  European Software Engineering Conference / Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering New Ideas Track (ESEC/FSE NI 2015)

• Varan the Unbelievable: An Efficient N-version Execution Framework

  Petr Hosek, Cristian Cadar

  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2015)

2014

• Docovery: Toward Generic Automatic Document Recovery

  Tomasz Kuchta, Cristian Cadar, Miguel Castro, Manuel Costa

  International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2014)

• Covrig: A Framework for the Analysis of Code, Test, and Coverage Evolution in Real Software

  Paul Dan Marinescu, Petr Hosek, Cristian Cadar

  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2014)

• SymbexNet: Testing Network Protocol Implementations with Symbolic Execution and Rule-Based Specifications

  JaeSeung Song, Cristian Cadar, Peter Pietzuch

  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE 2014)

• Symbolic Crosschecking of Data-Parallel Floating-Point Code

  Peter Collingbourne, Cristian Cadar, Paul H. J. Kelly

  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE 2014)

• Shadow Symbolic Execution for Better Testing of Evolving Software

  Cristian Cadar, Hristina Palikareva

  International Conference on Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE NIER 2014)

2013

• KATCH: High-Coverage Testing of Software Patches

  Paul Dan Marinescu, Cristian Cadar

  European Software Engineering Conference / ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2013)

• Multi-solver Support in Symbolic Execution

  Hristina Palikareva, Cristian Cadar

  International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2013)

• Safe Software Updates via Multi-version Execution

  Petr Hosek, Cristian Cadar

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013)

• Symbolic Execution for Software Testing: Three Decades Later

  Cristian Cadar, Koushik Sen

  Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM 2013)

2012

• High-Coverage Symbolic Patch Testing

  Paul Dan Marinescu, Cristian Cadar

  International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software (SPIN 2012)

• Multi-Version Software Updates

  Cristian Cadar, Petr Hosek

  Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp 2012)

• make test-zesti: A Symbolic Execution Solution for Improving Regression Testing

  Paul Dan Marinescu, Cristian Cadar

  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012)

• Efficient Argumentation for Medical Decision-Making

  Matthew Williams, Robert Craven, Francesca Toni, Cristian Cadar, Adrian Hadad

  International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2012)

2011

• SafeWeb: A Middleware for Securing Ruby-based Web Applications

  Petr Hosek, Matteo Migliavacca, Ioannis Papagiannis, David Eyers, David Evans, Brian Shand, Jean Bacon, Peter Pietzuch

  ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2011)

• Safe Software Updates via Multi-version Execution

  Petr Hosek, Cristian Cadar

  Imperial College London

• Rule-based Verification of Network Protocol Implementations using Symbolic Execution

  JaeSeung Song, Tiejun Ma, Cristian Cadar, Peter Pietzuch

  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2011)

• High Coverage Testing of Haskell Programs

  Tristan Allwood, Cristian Cadar, Susan Eisenbach

  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2011)

• Symbolic Execution for Software Testing in Practice - Preliminary Assessment

  Cristian Cadar, Patrice Godefroid, Sarfraz Khurshid, Corina Pasareanu, Koushik Sen, Nikolai Tillmann, Willem Visser

  International Conference on Software Engineering, Impact Project (ICSE Impact 2011)

• Symbolic Crosschecking of Floating-Point and SIMD Code

  Peter Collingbourne, Cristian Cadar, Paul H. J. Kelly

  European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2011)

• Symbolic Testing of OpenCL Code

  Peter Collingbourne, Cristian Cadar, Paul H. J. Kelly

  Haifa Verification Conference (HVC 2011)

2010

• Multiplicity Computing: A Vision of Software Engineering for Next-Generation Computing Platform Applications

  Cristian Cadar, Peter Pietzuch, Alexander Wolf

  Workshop on Future of Software Engineering Research (FoSER 2010)