Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.

Lecture Notes in Informatics


Testing of Component-Based Systems and Software Quality, Net.Object Days Workshops on Testing of Component-Based Systems (TECOS 2004) and Software Quality (SOQUA 2004), in Erfurt, Germany September 30, 2004. GI 2004 P-58, 179-189 (2004).

GI, Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn
2004


Editors

Ksami Beydeda, Volker Gruhn, Johannes Mayer, Ralf Reussner, Franz Schweiggert (eds.)


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Contents

Test oracles using statistical methods .

J. Mayer and R. Guderlei

Abstract


The oracle problem is addressed for random testing and testing of randomized software. The presented Statistical Oracle is a Heuristic Oracle using statistical methods, especially statistical tests. The Statistical Oracle is applicable in case there are explicit formulae for the mean, the distribution, and so on, of characteristics computable from the test result. However, the present paper only deals with the mean. As with the Heuristic Oracle, the decision of the Statistical Oracle is not always correct. An example from image analysis is shown, where the Statistical Oracle has successfully been applied.


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