Limitations
Symbolic execution is used to reason about a program path-by-path. This may be superior to reasoning about a program, like Dynamic program analysis does, input-by-input. But if few inputs take the same path through the program, there is no saving over testing each of the inputs separately.
Addressing the path explosion of symbolic execution is a research problem .
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