Gillian Debugging: Swinging Through the (Compositional Symbolic Execution) Trees, Extended Version
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| author | Karmios, Nat Ayoun, Sacha-Élie Gardner, Philippa |
| author_facet | Karmios, Nat Ayoun, Sacha-Élie Gardner, Philippa |
| contents | In recent years, compositional symbolic execution (CSE) tools have been growing in prominence and are becoming more and more applicable to real-world codebases. Still to this day, however, debugging the output of these tools remains difficult, even for specialist users. To address this, we introduce a debugging interface for symbolic execution tools, integrated with Visual Studio Code and the Gillian multi-language CSE platform, with strong focus on visualisation, interactivity, and intuitive representation of symbolic execution trees. We take care in making this interface tool-agnostic, easing its transfer to other symbolic analysis tools in future. We empirically evaluate our work with a user study, the results of which show the debugger's usefulness in helping early researchers understand the principles of CSE and verify fundamental data structure algorithms in Gillian. |
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| spellingShingle | Gillian Debugging: Swinging Through the (Compositional Symbolic Execution) Trees, Extended Version Karmios, Nat Ayoun, Sacha-Élie Gardner, Philippa Programming Languages In recent years, compositional symbolic execution (CSE) tools have been growing in prominence and are becoming more and more applicable to real-world codebases. Still to this day, however, debugging the output of these tools remains difficult, even for specialist users. To address this, we introduce a debugging interface for symbolic execution tools, integrated with Visual Studio Code and the Gillian multi-language CSE platform, with strong focus on visualisation, interactivity, and intuitive representation of symbolic execution trees. We take care in making this interface tool-agnostic, easing its transfer to other symbolic analysis tools in future. We empirically evaluate our work with a user study, the results of which show the debugger's usefulness in helping early researchers understand the principles of CSE and verify fundamental data structure algorithms in Gillian. |
| title | Gillian Debugging: Swinging Through the (Compositional Symbolic Execution) Trees, Extended Version |
| topic | Programming Languages |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07742 |