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Although the security testing of Web systems can be automated by generating crafted inputs, solutions to automate the test oracle, i.e., vulnerability detection, remain difficult to apply in practice. Specifically, though previous work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Nazanin Bayati Chaleshtari , Yoann Marquer , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel C. Briand

This paper presents a novel predictive model, MetaMorph, for metamorphic registration of images with appearance changes (i.e., caused by brain tumors). In contrast to previous learning-based registration methods that have little or no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jian Wang , Jiarui Xing , Jason Druzgal , William M. Wells , Miaomiao Zhang

Ensuring the safety of self-driving cars remains a major challenge due to the complexity and unpredictability of real-world driving environments. Traditional testing methods face significant limitations, such as the oracle problem, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Tony Zhang , Burak Kantarci , Umair Siddique

In order to prevent detection and evade signature-based scanning methods, which are normally exploited by antivirus software, metamorphic viruses use several various obfuscation approaches. They transform their code in new instances as look…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Babak Bashari Rad , Maslin Masrom

Deep learning (DL) frameworks are essential to DL-based software systems, and framework bugs may lead to substantial disasters, thus requiring effective testing. Researchers adopt DL models or single interfaces as test inputs and analyze…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yanzhou Mu , Juan Zhai , Chunrong Fang , Xiang Chen , Zhixiang Cao , Peiran Yang , Kexin Zhao , An Guo , Zhenyu Chen

Dirty data and deceptive design practices can undermine, invert, or invalidate the purported messages of charts and graphs. These failures can arise silently: a conclusion derived from a particular visualization may look plausible unless…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Andrew McNutt , Gordon Kindlmann , Michael Correll

A morphed face image is a synthetically created image that looks so similar to the faces of two subjects that both can use it for verification against a biometric verification system. It can be easily created by aligning and blending face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Clemens Seibold , Anna Hilsmann , Peter Eisert

Deep learning models are widely used for image analysis. While they offer high performance in terms of accuracy, people are concerned about if these models inappropriately make inferences using irrelevant features that are not encoded from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Yongqiang Tian , Shiqing Ma , Ming Wen , Yepang Liu , Shing-Chi Cheung , Xiangyu Zhang

Finding and fixing bugs are time-consuming activities in software development. Spectrum-based fault localization aims to identify the faulty position in source code based on the execution trace of test cases. Failing test cases and their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Jifeng Xuan , Martin Monperrus

Software testing is a prime factor in software industry. Besides knowing the importance of testing, only limited time is allocated for teaching it. It will be more efficient if testing is taught simultaneously with programming foundations.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-22 A. Anandaraj , P. Kalaivani , V. Rameshkumar

Image-based virtual try-on aims to synthesize a naturally dressed person image with a clothing image, which revolutionizes online shopping and inspires related topics within image generation, showing both research significance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dan Song , Xuanpu Zhang , Juan Zhou , Weizhi Nie , Ruofeng Tong , Mohan Kankanhalli , An-An Liu

Synthesising photo-realistic images from natural language is one of the challenging problems in computer vision. Over the past decade, a number of approaches have been proposed, of which the improved Stacked Generative Adversarial Network…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Hyejin Park , Taaha Waseem , Wen Qi Teo , Ying Hwei Low , Mei Kuan Lim , Chun Yong Chong

Automation of test oracles is one of the most challenging facets of software testing, but remains comparatively less addressed compared to automated test input generation. Test oracles rely on a ground-truth that can distinguish between the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Ali Reza Ibrahimzada , Yigit Varli , Dilara Tekinoglu , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

Adversarial attacks are small, carefully crafted perturbations, imperceptible to the naked eye; that when added to an image cause deep learning models to misclassify the image with potentially detrimental outcomes. With the rise of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Rohan Reddy Mekala , Gudjon Einar Magnusson , Adam Porter , Mikael Lindvall , Madeline Diep

Identifying and selecting high-quality Metamorphic Relations (MRs) is a challenge in Metamorphic Testing (MT). While some techniques for automatically selecting MRs have been proposed, they are either domain-specific or rely on strict…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Alejandra Duque-Torres , Dietmar Pfahl , Claus Klammer , Stefan Fischer

Algebraic specifications of data types provide a natural basis for testing data types implementations. In this framework, the conformance relation is based on the satisfaction of axioms. This makes it possible to formally state the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Marie-Claude Gaudel , Pascale Le Gall

A key challenge in formal verification, particularly in Model Checking, is ensuring the correctness of the verification tools. Erroneous results on complex models can be difficult to detect, yet a high level of confidence in the outcome is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Andrea Manini , Matteo Rossi , Pierluigi San Pietro

Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a powerful tool for biomedical studies. It achieves 3D visualization of mesoscopic biological samples with high spatial resolution using conventional tomographic-reconstruction algorithms. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yan Liu , Jonathan Dong , Thanh-An Pham , Francois Marelli , Michael Unser

Model-based mutation testing uses altered test models to derive test cases that are able to reveal whether a modelled fault has been implemented. This requires conformance checking between the original and the mutated model. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Bernhard K. Aichernig , Elisabeth Jöbstl

Estimating software testability can crucially assist software managers to optimize test budgets and software quality. In this paper, we propose a new approach that radically differs from the traditional approach of pursuing testability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Luca Guglielmo , Leonardo Mariani , Giovanni Denaro