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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

Unit testing is a stage of testing where the smallest segment of code that can be tested in isolation from the rest of the system - often a class - is tested. Unit tests are typically written as executable code, often in a format provided…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Afonso Fontes , Gregory Gay , Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto , Robert Feldt

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

Currently, the most prevalent way to evaluate an autonomous vehicle is to directly test it on the public road. However, because of recent accidents caused by autonomous vehicles, it becomes controversial about whether on-road tests should…

Applications · Statistics 2018-09-11 Zhiyuan Huang , Mansur Arief , Henry Lam , Ding Zhao

Environment modeling in autonomous driving is realized by two fundamental approaches, grid-based and feature-based approach. Both methods interpret the environment differently and show some situation-dependent beneficial realizations. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Nils Rexin , Marcel Musch , Klaus Dietmayer

The author has pledged in various papers, conference or seminar presentations, and scientific grant applications (between 2004-2015) for the unification of fusion theories, combinations of fusion rules, image fusion procedures, filter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Florentin Smarandache

As a type of search design, a detecting array can be used to generate test suites to identify and detect faults caused by interactions of factors in a component-based system. Recently, the construction and optimality of detecting arrays…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-15 Ce Shi , Yu Tang , Jianxing Yin

Test bots are automated testing tools that autonomously and periodically run a set of test cases that check whether the system under test meets the requirements set forth by the customer. The automation decreases the amount of time a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Linda Erlenhov , Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto , Martin Chukaleski , Samer Daknache

Autonomously driving vehicles require a complete and robust perception of the local environment. A main challenge is to perceive any other road users, where multi-object tracking or occupancy grid maps are commonly used. The presented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Fabian Gies , Andreas Danzer , Klaus Dietmayer

This article discusses a new technique to automatically generate test cases for object oriented programs. At the state of the art, the problem of generating adequate sets of complete test cases has not been satisfactorily solved yet. There…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Matteo Modonato

Unit testing is a fundamental practice in modern software engineering, with the aim of ensuring the correctness, maintainability, and reliability of individual software components. Very recently, with the advances in Large Language Models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Siqi Gu , Ye Shang , Zhenyu Chen , Liang Xiao

Combinatorial interaction testing (CIT) is a well-known technique, but the industrial experience is needed to determine its effectiveness in different application domains. We present a case study introducing a unified framework for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Bestoun S. Ahmed , Amador Pahim , Cleber R. Rosa Junior , D. Richard Kuhn , Miroslav Bures

In the future, AI will increasingly find its way into systems that can potentially cause physical harm to humans. For such safety-critical systems, it must be demonstrated that their residual risk does not exceed what is acceptable. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Michael Kläs , Lisa Jöckel , Rasmus Adler , Jan Reich

Combining test statistics from independent trials or experiments is a popular method of meta-analysis. However, there is very limited theoretical understanding of the power of the combined test, especially in high-dimensional models…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Botond Szabó , Aad van der Vaart , Lasse Vuursteen , Harry van Zanten

While reachability analysis is one of the most promising approaches for formal verification of dynamic systems, a major disadvantage preventing a more widespread application is the requirement to manually tune algorithm parameters such as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Niklas Kochdumper , Stanley Bak

Existing ordinal embedding methods usually follow a two-stage routine: outlier detection is first employed to pick out the inconsistent comparisons; then an embedding is learned from the clean data. However, learning in a multi-stage manner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Ke Ma , Qianqian Xu , Xiaochun Cao

We study hypothesis testing over a heterogeneous population of strategic agents with private information. Any single test applied uniformly across the population yields statistical error that is sub-optimal relative to the performance of an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Flora C. Shi , Martin J. Wainwright , Stephen Bates

Penetration Testing is a methodology for assessing network security, by generating and executing possible attacks. Doing so automatically allows for regular and systematic testing. A key question then is how to automatically generate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Carlos Sarraute

In this position paper, a novel approach to testing complex autonomous transportation systems (ATS) in the automotive, avionic, and railway domains is described. It is intended to mitigate some of the most critical problems regarding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Kerstin I. Eder , Wen-ling Huang , Jan Peleska

Model merging dramatically reduces storage and computational resources by combining multiple expert models into a single multi-task model. Although recent model merging methods have shown promising results, they struggle to maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zijing Wang , Xingle Xu , Yongkang Liu , Yiqun Zhang , Peiqin Lin , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Hinrich Schütze