Metamorphic Testing: Testing the Untestable

Sergio Segura; Dave Towey; Zhi Quan Zhou; Tsong Yueh Chen

doi:10.1109/MS.2018.2875968

Metamorphic Testing: Testing the Untestable

Sergio Segura, Dave Towey, Zhi Quan Zhou, Tsong Yueh Chen

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	8573811
Pages (from-to)	46-53
Number of pages	8
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	37
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2018.2875968
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2020

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Software testing
metamorphic testing
oracle problem
test case generation

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Software

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