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Testing and debugging techniques for answer set solver development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2010

ROBERT BRUMMAYER  and
MATTI JÄRVISALO
ROBERT BRUMMAYER
Affiliation:
Institute for Formal Models and Verification, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
MATTI JÄRVISALO
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Abstract

This paper develops automated testing and debugging techniques for answer set solver development. We describe a flexible grammar-based black-box ASP fuzz testing tool which is able to reveal various defects such as unsound and incomplete behavior, i.e. invalid answer sets and inability to find existing solutions, in state-of-the-art answer set solver implementations. Moreover, we develop delta debugging techniques for shrinking failure-inducing inputs on which solvers exhibit defective behavior. In particular, we develop a delta debugging algorithm in the context of answer set solving, and evaluate two different elimination strategies for the algorithm.

Keywords

answer set programminganswer set solverstestingdebugging

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Regular Papers
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 10 , Special Issue 4-6: 26th International Conference on Logic Programming , July 2010 , pp. 741 - 758
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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