Metamorphic Testing: Testing the Untestable

What if we could know that a program is buggy, even if we could not tell whether or not its observed output is correct? Metamorphic testing provides this ability. This article explains the basics of the technique.

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 46 - 53
Main Authors Segura, Sergio, Towey, Dave, Zhou, Zhi Quan, Chen, Tsong Yueh
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.05.2020
IEEE Computer Society
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Australia
metamorphic testing
oracle problem
Program processors
Programming
Search engines
Software testing
test case generation
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Summary:What if we could know that a program is buggy, even if we could not tell whether or not its observed output is correct? Metamorphic testing provides this ability. This article explains the basics of the technique.
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2018.2875968