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Security testing verifies that the data and the resources of software systems are protected from attackers. Unfortunately, it suffers from the oracle problem, which refers to the challenge, given an input for a system, of distinguishing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Phu X. Mai , Fabrizio Pastore , Arda Goknil , Lionel Briand

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 (MT) is a testing technique that can effectively alleviate the oracle problem. MT uses Metamorphic Relations (MRs) to determine if a test case passes or fails. MRs specify how the outputs should vary in response to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Alejandra Duque-Torres , Dietmar Pfahl , Claus Klammer , Stefan Fischer

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 (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

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

Metamorphic Testing (MT) alleviates the oracle problem by defining oracles based on metamorphic relations (MRs), that govern multiple related inputs and their outputs. However, designing MRs is challenging, as it requires domain-specific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Congying Xu , Valerio Terragni , Hengcheng Zhu , Jiarong Wu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Metamorphic testing (MT) is a simple yet effective technique to alleviate the oracle problem in software testing. The underlying idea of MT is to test a software system by checking whether metamorphic relations (MRs) hold among multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 An Fu , Chang-ai Sun , Jiaming Zhang , Huai Liu

Blockchain smart contracts play a crucial role in automating and securing agreements in diverse domains such as finance, healthcare, and supply chains. Despite their critical applications, testing these contracts often receives less…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Irving Jared Villanueva , Madhusudan Srinivasan , Faqeer Ur Rehman

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

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 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

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

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

With the widespread application of LLM-based dialogue systems in daily life, quality assurance has become more important than ever. Recent research has successfully introduced methods to identify unexpected behaviour in single-turn testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Guoxiang Guo , Aldeida Aleti , Neelofar Neelofar , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Yuanyuan Qi , Tsong Yueh Chen

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

Bioinformatics software plays a very important role in making critical decisions within many areas including medicine and health care. However, most of the research is directed towards developing tools, and little time and effort is spent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Madhusudan Srinivasan , Morteza Pourreza Shahri , Upulee Kanewala , Indika Kahanda

Metamorphic testing (MT) is a general approach for the testing of a specific kind of software systems -- so-called ``non-testable'', where the ``classical'' testing approaches are difficult to apply. MT is an effective approach for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Nasser Alzahrani , Maria Spichkova , James Harland

Metamorphic testing (MT) has proven to be a successful solution to automating testing and addressing the oracle problem. However, it entails manually deriving metamorphic relations (MRs) and converting them into an executable form; these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Seung Yeob Shin , Fabrizio Pastore , Domenico Bianculli , Alexandra Baicoianu
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