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DeepCrime: Mutation Testing of Deep Learning Systems Based on Real Faults
Nargiz Humbatova; Gunel Jahangirova; Paolo Tonella
Deep Learning (DL) solutions are increasingly adopted, but how to test them remains a major open research problem. Existing and new testing techniques have been proposed for and adapted to DL systems, including mutation testing. However, no approach has investigated the possibility to simulate the effects of real DL faults by means of mutation operators.
We have defined 35 DL mutation operators relying on 3 empirical studies about real faults in DL systems. We followed a systematic process to extract the mutation operators from the existing fault taxonomies, with a formal phase of conflict resolution in case of disagreement. We have implemented 24 of these DL mutation operators into DeepCrime, the first source-level pre-training mutation tool based on real DL faults. We have assessed our mutation operators to understand their characteristics: whether they produce interesting, i.e., killable but not trivial, mutations. Then, we have compared the sensitivity of our tool to the changes in the quality of test data with that of DeepMutation++, an existing post-training DL mutation tool.
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- Publication date:
- January 1, 2021
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- Grants:
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European Commission:
- PRECRIME - Self-assessment Oracles for Anticipatory Testing (787703)
- Related identifiers:
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- 10.1145/3460319.3464825 (Conference paper)
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International