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==History== The concept of symbolic execution was introduced academically in the 1970s with descriptions of: the Select system,<ref>Robert S. Boyer and Bernard Elspas and Karl N. Levitt SELECT--a formal system for testing and debugging programs by symbolic execution, Proceedings of the International Conference on Reliable Software, 1975, page 234--245, Los Angeles, California</ref> the EFFIGY system,<ref>James C. King, Symbolic execution and program testing, Communications of the ACM, volume 19, number 7, 1976, 385--394</ref> the DISSECT system,<ref>William E. Howden, Experiments with a symbolic evaluation system, Proceedings, National Computer Conference, 1976.</ref> and Clarke's system.<ref>Lori A. Clarke, A program testing system, ACM 76: Proceedings of the Annual Conference, 1976, pages 488-491, Houston, Texas, United States</ref>
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