High-Level Model Extraction via Symbolic Execution

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Model based verification
model extraction
symbolic execution
static program analysis
GUI-driven applications
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We study the problem of extracting high-level state machine models from software source code. Our target domain is GUI-driven applications for small hand-held devices such as cell phones and PDAs. In such systems, a natural high-level model is captured by a state machine, where states are GUI screens and button/menu item tappings are actions that trigger transitions between states. The paper presents a symbolic execution technique that allows us to identify states and transitions from the application source code. We discuss an implementation of this technique that operates on a large subset of the C# language and apply as a case study to the subsystem of a decision support tool for medical diagnosis.

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2012-01-01
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University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-12-04.
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