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Reference-request is used when the author needs to know about work related to the question.

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Reference Request: Application of Block Designs to Software Testing

See Orthogonal Latin squares: an application of experiment design to compiler testing.
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Symbolic Execution is a case of Abstract Interpretation?

I am not aware of a paper concerned with the comparison between symbolic execution and abstract interpretation. Nor do I think one is needed. Reading the original descriptions of these two techniques …
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What do we know about provably correct programs?

A tool that checks whether a program is correct is sometimes called a program verifier. In this context, "correct" usually means two things: that the program never produces certain outputs (think segm …
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Successful application of branch-and-bound methods for NP-hard problems

Exact Exponential Algorithms is a nice recent book about such algorithms. Algorithm X for the exact cover problem is also good to know.
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What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki?

Conchon, Filliatre, A Persistent UNION-FIND Data Structure and Semi-persistent Data Structures.
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Well known classes of boolean formulas that require exponentially long resolution proofs

There is a construction on page 9 of this paper by Groote and Zantema.
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Practical applications of the Theory of Equality with Uninterpreted Functions (EUF)

Most automatic theorem provers handle EUF in some form. In particular, provers based on the Nelson-Oppen architecture do so. For big systems, however, EUF is usually not enough. One needs specialized …
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Original Hoare Logic termination paper

You probably want Manna, Pnueli, Axiomatic Approach to Total Correctness of Programs, 1973
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Books on programming language semantics

Here is a random sample of materials available for free online: Winskel, The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages, Google Books preview. I don't know anything about this book. It's on the list …
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