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Various automated testing approaches have been proposed for Database Management Systems (DBMSs). Many such approaches generate pairs of equivalent queries to identify bugs that cause DBMSs to compute incorrect results, and have found…
Relational databases are used ubiquitously. They are managed by database management systems (DBMS), which allow inserting, modifying, and querying data using a domain-specific language called Structured Query Language (SQL). Popular DBMS…
Logic bugs are bugs that can cause database management systems (DBMSs) to silently produce incorrect results for given queries. Such bugs are severe, because they can easily be overlooked by both developers and users, and can cause…
Database Management System (DBMS) plays a core role in modern software from mobile apps to online banking. It is critical that DBMS should provide correct data to all applications. When the DBMS returns incorrect data, a correctness bug is…
Database Management System (DBMS) is the key component for data-intensive applications. Recently, researchers propose many tools to comprehensively test DBMS systems for finding various bugs. However, these tools only cover a small subset…
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are vital components in modern data-driven systems. Their complexity often leads to logic bugs, which are implementation errors within the DBMSs that can lead to incorrect query results, data exposure,…
Generation-based testing techniques have shown their effectiveness in detecting logic bugs of DBMS, which are often caused by improper implementation of query optimizers. Nonetheless, existing generation-based debug tools are limited to…
DBMSs are complex systems prone to bugs that may lead to system failures or compromise data integrity. Establishing unified DBMS bug repositories is crucial for systematically organizing bug-related data, enabling code improvement, and…
DBMS bugs can cause serious consequences, posing severe security and privacy concerns. This paper works towards the detection of memory bugs and logic bugs in DBMSs, and aims to solve the two innate challenges, including how to generate…
Traditional database fuzzing techniques primarily focus on syntactic correctness and general SQL structures, leaving critical yet obscure DBMS features, such as system-level modes (e.g., GTID), programmatic constructs (e.g., PROCEDURE),…
Fuzzing is an increasingly popular technique for verifying software functionalities and finding security vulnerabilities. However, current mutation-based fuzzers cannot effectively test database management systems (DBMSs), which strictly…
Recently, various automated testing approaches have been proposed that use specialized test oracles to find hundreds of logic bugs in mature, widely-used Database Management Systems (DBMSs). These test oracles require database and query…
Since 2020, automated testing for Database Management Systems (DBMSs) has flourished, uncovering hundreds of bugs in widely-used systems. A cornerstone of these techniques is test oracle, which typically implements a mechanism to generate…
Database management systems (DBMSs) are notoriously complex, making them difficult to test effectively, especially during early development when many features are incomplete. Traditional testing tools like SQLancer and SQLSmith are highly…
Data engineering workflows require reliable differencing across files, databases, and query outputs, yet existing tools falter under schema drift, heterogeneous types, and limited explainability. SmartDiff is a unified system that combines…
Vector database management systems (VDBMSs) play a crucial role in facilitating semantic similarity searches over high-dimensional embeddings from diverse data sources. While VDBMSs are widely used in applications such as recommendation,…
Database connectors are critical components enabling applications to interact with underlying database management systems (DBMS), yet their security vulnerabilities often remain overlooked. Unlike traditional software defects, connector…
Distributed databases, as the core infrastructure software for internet applications, play a critical role in modern cloud services. However, existing distributed databases frequently experience system failures and performance degradation,…
Differential testing offers a promising strategy to alleviate the test oracle problem by comparing the test results between alternative implementations. However, existing differential testing techniques for deep learning (DL) libraries are…
A Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is one of the fundamental software that supports a wide range of applications, making it critical to identify bugs within these systems. There has been active research on testing RDBMS, most…