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Executing large test suites is time and resource consuming, sometimes impossible, and such test suites typically contain many redundant test cases. Hence, test case minimization is used to remove redundant test cases that are unlikely to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Rongqi Pan , Taher A. Ghaleb , Lionel Briand

Specification inference techniques aim at (automatically) inferring a set of assertions that capture the exhibited software behaviour by generating and filtering assertions through dynamic test executions and mutation testing. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aayush Garg , Renzo Degiovanni , Facundo Molina , Mike Papadakis , Nazareno Aguirre , Maxime Cordy , Yves Le Traon

Genetic Algorithms are a popular set of optimization algorithms often used to aid software testing. However, no work has been done to apply systematic software testing techniques to genetic algorithms because of the stochasticity and the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Janette Rounds , Upulee Kanewala

Unsupervised machine learning is the training of an artificial intelligence system using information that is neither classified nor labeled, with a view to modeling the underlying structure or distribution in a dataset. Since unsupervised…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Xiaoyuan Xie , Zhiyi Zhang , Tsong Yueh Chen , Yang Liu , Pak-Lok Poon , Baowen Xu

Growing concerns over data privacy and security highlight the importance of machine unlearning--removing specific data influences from trained models without full retraining. Techniques like Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) are widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Cheng-Long Wang , Qi Li , Zihang Xiang , Yinzhi Cao , Di Wang

Metamorphic testing is a widely used methodology that examines an expected relation between pairs of executions to automatically find bugs, such as correctness bugs. We found that code coverage cannot accurately measure the extent to which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jinsheng Ba , Yuancheng Jiang , Manuel Rigger

Despite efforts to align large language models (LLMs) with societal and moral values, these models remain susceptible to jailbreak attacks -- methods designed to elicit harmful responses. Jailbreaking black-box LLMs is considered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Muyang Zheng , Yuanzhi Yao , Changting Lin , Caihong Kai , Yanxiang Chen , Zhiquan Liu

This paper presents an automated tool called Morphy for datamorphic testing. It classifies software test artefacts into test entities and test morphisms, which are mappings on testing entities. In addition to datamorphisms, metamorphisms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Hong Zhu , Ian Bayley , Dongmei Liu , Xiaoyu Zheng

Automated UI testing is an important component of the continuous integration process of software development. A modern web-based UI is an amalgam of reports from dozens of microservices written by multiple teams. Queries on a page that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Zhe Yu , Fahmid M. Fahid , Tim Menzies , Gregg Rothermel , Kyle Patrick , Snehit Cherian

Traditional cybersecurity methodologies target deterministic systems and fail to address the probabilistic nature of AI, leaving systems vulnerable to attack vectors such as model inversion, data poisoning, and prompt injection. Recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tsafac Nkombong Regine Cyrille , Franziska Schwarz

Large-Language Models (LLMs) have shifted the paradigm of natural language data processing. However, their black-boxed and probabilistic characteristics can lead to potential risks in the quality of outputs in diverse LLM applications.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Sangwon Hyun , Mingyu Guo , M. Ali Babar

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

Software is prone to security vulnerabilities. Program analysis tools to detect them have limited effectiveness in practice due to their reliance on human labeled specifications. Large language models (or LLMs) have shown impressive code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Ziyang Li , Saikat Dutta , Mayur Naik

Mutation analysis has many applications, such as assessing the quality of test cases, fault localization, test input generation, security analysis, etc. Such applications involve running test suite against a large number of program mutants…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Ali Ghanbari , Andrian Marcus

Homomorphic encryption is one of the main solutions for building secure and privacy-preserving solutions for Machine Learning as a Service. This motivates the development of homomorphic algorithms for the main building blocks of AI,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Wonhee Cho , Guillaume Hanrot , Taeseong Kim , Minje Park , Damien Stehlé

Compiler optimization techniques are inherently complex, and rigorous testing of compiler optimization implementation is critical. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of testing approaches for uncovering incorrect optimization bugs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jingwen Wu , Jiajing Zheng , Zhenyu Yang , Zhongxing Yu

Identifying the vulnerabilities of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for improving their safety by addressing inherent weaknesses. Jailbreaks, in which adversaries bypass safeguards with crafted input prompts, play a central role in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hamin Koo , Minseon Kim , Jaehyung Kim

Test optimization contains test case selection and minimization, which is an important challenge in software testing and has been addressed with search-based approaches intensively in the past. Inspired by the recent advancement of using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yige Yang , Man Zhang , Tao Yue

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

The escalating complexity of software systems and accelerating development cycles pose a significant challenge in managing code errors and implementing business logic. Traditional techniques, while cornerstone for software quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Gang Fan , Xiaoheng Xie , Xunjin Zheng , Yinan Liang , Peng Di