Metamorphic Testing for Cybersecurity

Tsong Yueh Chen; Fei Ching Kuo; Wenjuan Ma; Willy Susilo; Dave Towey; Jeffrey Voas; Zhi Quan Zhou

doi:10.1109/MC.2016.176

Metamorphic Testing for Cybersecurity

Tsong Yueh Chen, Fei Ching Kuo, Wenjuan Ma, Willy Susilo, Dave Towey, Jeffrey Voas, Zhi Quan Zhou

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

Metamorphic testing (MT) can enhance security testing by providing an alternative to using a test oracle, which is often unavailable or impractical. The authors report how MT detected previously unknown bugs in real-world critical applications such as code obfuscators, giving evidence that software testing requires diverse perspectives to achieve greater cybersecurity.

Original language	English
Pages	48-55
Number of pages	8
Volume	49
No.	6
Specialist publication	Computer
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2016.176
Publication status	Published - Jun 2016

Keywords

Heartbleed bug
Web testing
cybersecurity
cyberthreats
fuzzing
logic error
metamorphic testing
obfuscator testing
oracle problem
software testing
software vulnerability

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General Computer Science

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