The oracle problem: testing's oldest unsolved question, and why AI just made it urgent
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Here's a question that sounds trivial and isn't: when your program produces an output, how do you know it's the right one? That's the test oracle problem , and it's one of the oldest open problems in software testing (the definitive survey is Barr, Harman, McMinn, Shahbaz & Yoo, IEEE TSE 2015). Eve…
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The oracle problem: testing's oldest unsolved question, and why AI just made it urgent