Synthesizing Smart Solving Strategy for Symbolic Execution

Abstract

Constraint solving is one of the challenges for symbolic execution. Modern SMT solvers allow users to customize the internal solving procedure by solving strategies. In this extended abstract, we report our recent progress in synthesizing a program-specific solving strategy for the symbolic execution of a program. We propose a two-stage procedure for symbolic execution. At the first stage, we synthesize a solving strategy by utilizing deep learning techniques. Then, the strategy will be used in the second stage to improve the performance of constraint solving. The preliminary experimental results indicate the promising of our method.