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Mutation testing is a powerful technique for assessing and improving test suite quality that artificially introduces bugs and checks whether the test suites catch them. However, it is also computationally expensive and thus does not scale…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Kush Jain , Uri Alon , Alex Groce , Claire Le Goues

Mutation analysis evaluates test suites and testing techniques by measuring how well they detect seeded defects (mutants). Even though well established in research, mutation analysis is rarely used in practice due to scalability problems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-03-13 René Just , Michael D. Ernst , Gordon Fraser

Failures in safety-critical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), both software and hardware-related, can lead to severe incidents impacting physical infrastructure or even harming humans. As a result, extensive simulations and field tests need to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ankit Agrawal , Philipp Zech , Michael Vierhauser

Dynamically Adaptive Systems modify their behav- ior and structure in response to changes in their surrounding environment and according to an adaptation logic. Critical sys- tems increasingly incorporate dynamic adaptation capabilities;…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-05-28 Alexandre Bartel , Benoit Baudry , Freddy Munoz , Jacques Klein , Tejeddine Mouelhi , Yves Le Traon

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) combine software and physical components. These systems are widely applied in society within many domains, including the automotive, aerospace, railway, etc. Testing these systems is extremely challenging,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Aitor Arrieta

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate sensing, communication, computation, and control to support critical infrastructure, including smart grids, industrial automation, and control systems. In the electrical utility domain, various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Abile Jean , Kuniyilh S

Traditional Cyber-physical Systems(CPSs) were not built with cybersecurity in mind. They operated on separate Operational Technology (OT) networks. As these systems now become more integrated with Information Technology (IT) networks based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Ameerah-Muhsinah Jamil , Lotfi ben Othmane , Altaz Valani

Identifying the cause of a system-level failure in a cyber-physical system (CPS) can be like tracing a needle in a haystack. This paper approaches the problem by assuming that the CPS has been designed compositionally and that each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Josefine B. Graebener , Inigo Incer , Richard M. Murray

Mutation testing is a standard technique to evaluate the quality of a test suite. Due to its computationally intensive nature, many approaches have been proposed to make this technique feasible in real case scenarios. Among these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Ali Parsai , Alessandro Murgia , Serge Demeyer

Cyber-physical system (CPS) forecasting models depend on sensor streams with noisy, biased, missing, or temporally misaligned readings, yet standard forecasting evaluation often selects models by nominal error without showing whether they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Alexander Windmann , Philipp Wittenberg , Gianluca Manca , Marcel Dix , Jens U. Brandt , Oliver Niggemann

Mutation testing has been demonstrated to be one of the most powerful fault-revealing tools in the tester's tool kit. Much previous work implicitly assumed it to be sufficient to re-compute mutant suites per release. Sadly, this makes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Milos Ojdanic , Mike Papadakis , Mark Harman

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), e.g., elevator systems and autonomous driving systems, are progressively permeating our everyday lives. To ensure their safety, various analyses need to be conducted, such as anomaly detection and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Qinghua Xu , Tao Yue , Shaukat Ali , Maite Arratibel

The adoption of cyber-physical systems (CPS) is on the rise in complex physical environments, encompassing domains such as autonomous vehicles, the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart cities. A critical attribute of CPS is robustness,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-27 Changjian Zhang , Parv Kapoor , Romulo Meira-Goes , David Garlan , Eunsuk Kang , Akila Ganlath , Shatadal Mishra , Nejib Ammar

Security has become, nowadays, a major concern for the organizations as the majority of its applications are exposed to Internet, which increases the threats of security considerably. Thus, the solution is to improve tools and mechanisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Mohammed Ennahbaoui , Said Elhajji

In this paper, we consider the problem of input-output data-driven sensor selection for unknown cyber-physical systems (CPS). In particular, out of a large set of sensors available for use, we choose a subset of them that maximizes a metric…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Filippos Fotiadis , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) tightly interconnect digital and physical operations within production environments, enabling real-time monitoring, control, optimization, and autonomous decision-making that directly enhance manufacturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Francesco Vitale , Nicola Dall'Ora , Sebastiano Gaiardelli , Enrico Fraccaroli , Nicola Mazzocca , Franco Fummi

Mutation analysis is a well-established technique for assessing test quality in the traditional software development paradigm by injecting artificial faults into programs. Its application to deep learning (DL) has expanded beyond classical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zaheed Ahmed , Philip Makedonski , Jens Grabowski

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have gained popularity due to the increased requirements on their uninterrupted connectivity and process automation. Due to their connectivity over the network including intranet and internet, dependence on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Danish Hudani , Muhammad Haseeb , Muhammad Taufiq , Muhammad Azmi Umer , Nandha Kumar Kandasamy

Mutation testing is a well-established technique for assessing a test suite's quality by injecting artificial faults into production code. In recent years, mutation testing has been extended to machine learning (ML) systems, and deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Annibale Panichella , Cynthia C. S. Liem

The superposition of data sets with internal parametric self-similarity is a longstanding and widespread technique for the analysis of many types of experimental data across the physical sciences. Typically, this superposition is performed…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-06-01 Kyle R. Lennon , Gareth H. McKinley , James W. Swan