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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 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

Self-driving cars have the potential to revolutionize transportation, but ensuring their safety remains a significant challenge. These systems must navigate a variety of unexpected scenarios on the road, and their complexity poses…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Tony Zhang , Burak Kantarci , Umair Siddique

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

Deepfakes utilise Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to create synthetic media where the likeness of one person is replaced with another. There are growing concerns that deepfakes can be maliciously used to create misleading and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Nyee Thoang Lim , Meng Yi Kuan , Muxin Pu , Mei Kuan Lim , Chun Yong Chong

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

Metamorphic testing has recently been used to check the safety of neural NLP models. Its main advantage is that it does not rely on a ground truth to generate test cases. However, existing studies are mostly concerned with robustness-like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Edoardo Manino , Julia Rozanova , Danilo Carvalho , Andre Freitas , Lucas Cordeiro

Large language models and deep learning models designed for code intelligence have revolutionized the software engineering field due to their ability to perform various code-related tasks. These models can process source code and software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ali Asgari , Milan de Koning , Pouria Derakhshanfar , Annibale Panichella

Security testing aims at verifying that the software meets its security properties. In modern Web systems, however, this often entails the verification of the outputs generated when exercising the system with a very large set of inputs.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Nazanin Bayati Chaleshtari , Fabrizio Pastore , Arda Goknil , Lionel C. Briand

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

The prediction of human trajectories is important for planning in autonomous systems that act in the real world, e.g. automated driving or mobile robots. Human trajectory prediction is a noisy process, and no prediction does precisely match…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Helge Spieker , Nassim Belmecheri , Arnaud Gotlieb , Nadjib Lazaar

Despite the rapid growth of smart contracts, they are suffering numerous security vulnerabilities due to the absence of reliable development and testing. In this article, we apply the metamorphic testing technique to detect smart contract…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jiahao Li

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

Autonomous systems, such as autonomous driving systems, evolve rapidly through frequent updates, risking unintended behavioral degradations. Effective system-level testing is challenging due to the vast scenario space, the absence of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hossein Yousefizadeh , Shenghui Gu , Lionel C. Briand , Ali Nasr

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

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

Recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) have led to object detectors that can rapidly process pictures or videos, and recognize the objects that they contain. Despite the promising progress by industrial manufacturers such as Amazon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Shuai Wang , Zhendong Su

Recently there has been significant progress in the field of dialogue system thanks to the introduction of training paradigms such as fine-tune and prompt learning. Persona can function as the prior knowledge for maintaining the personality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yanbing Chen , Lin Li , Xiaohui Tao , Dong Zhou

Genetic programming is an evolutionary approach known for its performance in program synthesis. However, it is not yet mature enough for a practical use in real-world software development, since usually many training cases are required to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Dominik Sobania , Martin Briesch , Philipp Röchner , Franz Rothlauf

In many industrial domains, the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) is used to exchange simulation models as Functional Mock-up Units (FMUs) across different partners using various modelling tools. This opens up the possibilities for…