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Metamorphic Testing: A Literature Review - Version 1.3 (Technical Report ISA-16-TR-02)
Autor/es | Segura Rueda, Sergio
Fraser, Gordon Sánchez Jerez, Ana Belén Ruiz Cortés, Antonio |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos |
Fecha de publicación | 2016 |
Fecha de depósito | 2022-07-06 |
Resumen | A test oracle determines whether a test execution reveals a fault, often by comparing the observed program output to the
expected output. This is not always practical, for example when a program’s input-output relation ... A test oracle determines whether a test execution reveals a fault, often by comparing the observed program output to the expected output. This is not always practical, for example when a program’s input-output relation is complex and difficult to capture formally. Metamorphic testing provides an alternative, where correctness is not determined by checking an individual concrete output, but by applying a transformation to a test input and observing how the program output “morphs” into a different one as a result. Since the introduction of such metamorphic relations in 1998, many contributions on metamorphic testing have been made, and the technique has seen successful applications in a variety of domains, ranging from web services to computer graphics. This technical report provides a comprehensive literature review on metamorphic testing: It summarises the research results and application areas, and analyses common practice in empirical studies of metamorphic testing as well as the main open challenges. |
Cita | Segura Rueda, S., Fraser, G.,...,Ruiz Cortés, A. (2016). Metamorphic Testing: A Literature Review - Version 1.3 (Technical Report ISA-16-TR-02). https://hdl.handle.net/11441/135051. |
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