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Metamorphic testing is a well known approach to tackle the oracle problem in software testing. This technique requires the use of source test cases that serve as seeds for the generation of follow-up test cases. Systematic design of test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Prashanta Saha , Upulee Kanewala

Testing software is often costly due to the need of mass-producing test cases and providing a test oracle for it. This is often referred to as the oracle problem. One method that has been proposed in order to alleviate the oracle problem is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Adrian Wildandyawan , Yasuharu Nishi

Metamorphic testing has become one mainstream technique to address the notorious oracle problem in software testing, thanks to its great successes in revealing real-life bugs in a wide variety of software systems. Metamorphic relations, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Rui Li , Huai Liu , Pak-Lok Poon , Dave Towey , Chang-Ai Sun , Zheng Zheng , Zhi Quan Zhou , Tsong Yueh Chen

Metamorphic testing seeks to verify software in the absence of test oracles. Our application domain is ocean system modeling, where test oracles rarely exist, but where symmetries of the simulated physical systems are known. The input data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Dilip Jagadeeshwarswamy Hiremath , Martin Claus , Wilhelm Hasselbring , Willi Rath

Model transformations are the cornerstone of Model-Driven Engineering, and provide the essential mechanisms for manipulating and transforming models. Checking whether the output of a model transformation is correct is a manual and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Javier Troya , Sergio Segura , Antonio Ruiz-Cortés

An oracle is a mechanism to decide whether the outputs of the program for the executed test cases are correct. For machine learning programs, such oracle is not available or too difficult to apply. Metamorphic testing is a testing approach…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Madhusudan Srinivasan , Upulee Kanewala

In software testing, a set of test cases is constructed according to some predefined selection criteria. The software is then examined against these test cases. Three interesting observations have been made on the current artifacts of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-02 T. Y. Chen , S. C. Cheung , S. M. Yiu

An oracle determines whether the output of a program for executed test cases is correct. For machine learning programs, such an oracle is often unavailable or impractical to apply. Metamorphic testing addresses this by using metamorphic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Madhusudan Srinivasan , Upulee Kanewala

Metamorphic testing seeks to validate software in the absence of test oracles. Our application domain is ocean modeling, where test oracles often do not exist, but where symmetries of the simulated physical systems are known. In this short…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Dilip J. Hiremath , Martin Claus , Wilhelm Hasselbring , Willi Rath

Metamorphic Testing (MT) addresses the test oracle problem by examining the relationships between input-output pairs in consecutive executions of the System Under Test (SUT). These relations, known as Metamorphic Relations (MRs), specify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Alejandra Duque-Torres , Dietmar Pfahl

Metamorphic testing is a popular approach that aims to alleviate the oracle problem in software testing. At the core of this approach are Metamorphic Relations (MRs), specifying properties that hold among multiple test inputs and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jon Ayerdi , Valerio Terragni , Gunel Jahangirova , Aitor Arrieta , Paolo Tonella

Metamorphic testing is a testing method for problems without test oracles. Integration testing allows for detecting errors in complex systems that may not be found during the testing of their components. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Sofia F. Yakusheva , Anton S. Khritankov

Metamorphic testing (MT) is widely used for testing programs that face the oracle problem. It uses a set of metamorphic relations (MRs), which are relations among multiple inputs and their corresponding outputs to determine whether the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Madhusudan Srinivasan , Upulee Kanewala

Automatic test generation aims to save developers time and effort by producing test suites with reasonably high coverage and fault detection. However, the focus of search-based generation tools in maximizing coverage leaves other…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Geraldine Galindo-Gutierrez

Regression testing is crucial in ensuring that pure code refactoring does not adversely affect existing software functionality, but it can be expensive, accounting for half the cost of software maintenance. Automated test case generation…

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

Machine learning may enable the automated generation of test oracles. We have characterized emerging research in this area through a systematic literature review examining oracle types, researcher goals, the ML techniques applied, how the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Afonso Fontes , Gregory Gay

Software testing is often hindered where it is impossible or impractical to determine the correctness of the behaviour or output of the software under test (SUT), a situation known as the oracle problem. An example of an area facing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Liming Xu , Dave Towey , Andrew French , Steve Benford , Zhi Quan Zhou , Tsong Yueh Chen

Matrices often represent important information in scientific applications and are involved in performing complex calculations. But systematically testing these applications is hard due to the oracle problem. Metamorphic testing is an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Karishma Rahman , Upulee Kanewala

Software testing is difficult to automate, especially in programs which have no oracle, or method of determining which output is correct. Metamorphic testing is a solution this problem. Metamorphic testing uses metamorphic relations to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Bonnie Hardin , Upulee Kanewala

This paper presents a data-driven framework to improve the trustworthiness of US tax preparation software systems. Given the legal implications of bugs in such software on its users, ensuring compliance and trustworthiness of tax…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Verya Monjezi , Morgan Wagner , Shiva Darian , Krystia Reed , Ashutosh Trivedi
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