Abstract
Metamorphic testing (MT) is an innovative approach to alleviating the oracle problem in software testing, which uses metamorphic relations of the program under test, instead of the test oracles, to verify its outputs. To alleviate the oracle problem of testing web services, we had previously proposed an MT framework for web services. In this paper, we further improve the efficiency and automation of this framework by leveraging metamorphic relations to iteratively generate test cases. We present a fixed-size iterative MT algorithm and implement it in the MT framework. We conduct three case studies to evaluate the fault detection effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach. Experimental results suggest that, compared with the conventional MT, iterative MT can achieve a comparable fault detection effectiveness, but with significantly fewer resources. Observations and limitations are summarised to provide new insights into the application of iterative MT.
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