Publications on Oracles

Automated Layout Failure Detection for Responsive Web Pages Without an Explicit Oracle
TA Walsh, GM Kapfhammer and P McMinn
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2017
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The Oracle Problem in Software Testing: A Survey
ET Barr, M Harman, P McMinn, M Shahbaz and S Yoo
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2015
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Automatic Generation of Valid and Invalid Test Data for String Validation Routines Using Web Searches and Regular Expressions
M Shahbaz, P McMinn and M Stevenson
Science of Computer Programming, 2015
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A Comprehensive Survey of Trends in Oracles for Software Testing
M Harman, P McMinn, M Shahbaz and S Yoo
Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, 2013
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Automated Discovery of Valid Test Strings From the Web Using Dynamic Regular Expressions Collation and Natural Language Processing
M Shahbaz, P McMinn and M Stevenson
International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC), 2012
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An Investigation Into Qualitative Human Oracle Costs
S Afshan and P McMinn
Psychology of Programming Interest Group Annual Workshop (PPIG), 2011
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Optimizing for the Number of Tests Generated in Search Based Test Data Generation With an Application to the Oracle Cost Problem
M Harman, SG Kim, K Lakhotia, P McMinn and S Yoo
International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST), 2010
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Reducing Qualitative Human Oracle Costs Associated With Automatically Generated Test Data
P McMinn, M Stevenson and M Harman
International Workshop on Software Test Output Validation (STOV), 2010
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Search-Based Failure Discovery Using Testability Transformations to Generate Pseudo-Oracles
P McMinn
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2009
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