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Random testing (RT) is a well-studied testing method that has been widely applied to the testing of many applications, including embedded software systems, SQL database systems, and Android applications. Adaptive random testing (ART) aims…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Rubing Huang , Weifeng Sun , Yinyin Xu , Haibo Chen , Dave Towey , Xin Xia

Adaptive Random Testing (ART) enhances the testing effectiveness (including fault-detection capability) of Random Testing (RT) by increasing the diversity of the random test cases throughout the input domain. Many ART algorithms have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Rubing Huang , Chenhui Cui , Junlong Lian , Dave Towey , Weifeng Sun , Haibo Chen

Random testing (RT) is a black-box software testing technique that tests programs by generating random test inputs. It is a widely used technique for software quality assurance, but there has been much debate by practitioners concerning its…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Jinfu Chen , Hilary Ackah-Arthur , Chengying Mao , Patrick Kwaku Kudjo

Adaptive random testing (ART) improves the failure-detection effectiveness of random testing by leveraging properties of the clustering of failure-causing inputs of most faulty programs: ART uses a sampling mechanism that evenly spreads…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Muhammad Ashfaq , Rubing Huang , Dave Towey , Michael Omari , Dmitry Yashunin , Patrick Kwaku Kudjo , Tao Zhang

Testing whether a variable of interest affects the outcome is one of the most fundamental problem in statistics and is often the main scientific question of interest. To tackle this problem, the conditional randomization test (CRT) is…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-26 Dae Woong Ham , Jiaze Qiu

Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) offers an efficient and personalized method for assessing examinee proficiency by dynamically adjusting test questions based on individual performance. Compared to traditional, non-personalized testing…

In recent years, Automated Program Repair (APR) has been extensively studied in academia and even drawn wide attention from industry. However, APR techniques can be extremely time consuming since (1) a large number of patches can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yiling Lou , Jun Yang , Samuel Benton , Dan Hao , Lin Tan , Zhenpeng Chen , Lu Zhang , Lingming Zhang

Adaptive Random Testing (ART) is an enhancement of Random Testing (RT), and aims to improve the RT failure-detection effectiveness by distributing test cases more evenly in the input domain. Many ART algorithms have been proposed, with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Rubing Huang , Chenhui Cui , Dave Towey , Weifeng Sun , Junlong Lian

Data from multifactor HCI experiments often violates the normality assumption of parametric tests (i.e., nonconforming data). The Aligned Rank Transform (ART) is a popular nonparametric analysis technique that can find main and interaction…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-24 Lisa A. Elkin , Matthew Kay , James J. Higgins , Jacob O. Wobbrock

We propose smooth $q$-gram, the first variant of $q$-gram that captures $q$-gram pair within a small edit distance. We apply smooth $q$-gram to the problem of detecting overlapping pairs of error-prone reads produced by single molecule real…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Haoyu Zhang , Qin Zhang , Haixu Tang

Modern randomization methods in clinical trials are invariably adaptive, meaning that the assignment of the next subject to a treatment group uses the accumulated information in the trial. Some of the recent adaptive randomization methods…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-12 Alan R. Vazquez , Weng Kee Wong

Traditional statistical analysis requires that the analysis process and data are independent. By contrast, the new field of adaptive data analysis hopes to understand and provide algorithms and accuracy guarantees for research as it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Sam Elder

Randomized algorithms for low-rank approximation of quaternion matrices have gained increasing attention in recent years. However, existing methods overlook pass efficiency, the ability to limit the number of passes over the input…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Salman Ahmadi-Asl , Malihe Nobakht Kooshkghazi , Valentin Leplat

In this paper, we have developed an approach to generate test data for path coverage based testing. The main challenge of this kind testing lies in its ability to build efficiently such a test suite in order to minimize the number of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Esmaeel Nikravan , Farid Feyzi , Saeed Parsa

A sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) facilitates comparison of multiple adaptive treatment strategies (ATSs) simultaneously. Previous studies have established a framework to test the homogeneity of multiple ATSs by a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-04 Liwen Wu , Junyao Wang , Abdus S. Wahed

In covariate-adaptive or response-adaptive randomization, the treatment assignment and outcome can be correlated. Under this situation, re-randomization tests are a straightforward and attractive method to provide valid statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-14 Yilong Zhang , Yujie Zhao , Yiwen Luo

We introduce ART, a distribution-free and model-agnostic framework for changepoint detection that provides finite-sample guarantees. ART transforms independent observations into real-valued scores via a symmetric function, ensuring…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-09 Xiaolong Cui , Haoyu Geng , Guanghui Wang , Zhaojun Wang , Changliang Zou

Adversarial testing of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for their safe and responsible deployment. We introduce a novel approach for automated generation of adversarial evaluation datasets to test the safety of LLM generations on new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Bhaktipriya Radharapu , Kevin Robinson , Lora Aroyo , Preethi Lahoti

Estimation and hypothesis tests for the covariance matrix in high dimensions is a challenging problem as the traditional multivariate asymptotic theory is no longer valid. When the dimension is larger than or increasing with the sample…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-18 Deepak Nag Ayyala , Santu Ghosh , Daniel F. Linder

This paper considers the problem of Quantitative Group Testing (QGT) where there are some defective items among a large population of $N$ items. We consider the scenario in which each item is defective with probability $K/N$, independently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Esmaeil Karimi , Fatemeh Kazemi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Krishna R. Narayanan , Alex Sprintson
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