一句话：总结蜕变测试25年发展，提出未来七大愿景，涵盖测试用例生成、集成、理论化及跨领域应用。
蜕变测试（MT）自提出已约四分之一世纪，正逐渐被学术界与工业界接受。本文基于其研究结果、应用与扩展，提出对未来发展的若干愿景：蜕变关系（MR）将成为测试用例生成技术的实用补充，而不再仅用于缓解测试预言问题；MT 将不再是孤立方法，而能与其他方法便捷集成；MT 与 MR 将超越软件测试乃至验证，MR 可超越算法必要性质；MT 研究将从经验研究走向理论基础；MT 将为软件测试及其他学科带来新概念；MR 还将超越传统方法缓解可靠测试集问题。这些愿景旨在帮助研究者探索未来十年的挑战与机遇。
Metamorphic testing (MT) was introduced about a quarter of a century ago. It is increasingly being accepted by researchers and the industry as a useful testing technique. The studies, research results, applications, and extensions of MT have given us many insights and visions for its future. Our visions include: MRs will be a practical means to top up test case generation techniques, beyond the alleviation of the test oracle problem; MT will not only be a standalone technique, but conveniently integrated with other methods; MT and MRs will evolve beyond software testing, or even beyond verification; MRs may be anything that you can imagine, beyond the necessary properties of algorithms; MT research will be beyond empirical studies and move toward a theoretical foundation; MT will not only bring new concepts to software testing but also new concepts to other disciplines; MRs will alleviate the reliable test set problem beyond traditional approaches. These visions may help researchers explore the challenges and opportunities for MT in the next decade.
DOI 原文 ·
@inproceedings{paperbot6291,
title = {New visions on metamorphic testing after a quarter of a century of inception},
author = {Tsong Yueh Chen and T. H. Tse},
booktitle = {FSE},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1145/3468264.3473136}
}