Abstract:Automated tests can play a key role in ensuring system quality in software development. However, significant problems arise in automating tests of stochastic algorithms. Normally, developers write tests that simply check whether the actual result is equal to the expected result (perhaps within some tolerance). But for stochastic algorithms, restricting ourselves in this way severely limits the kinds of tests we can write: either to trivial tests, or to fragile and hard-tounderstand tests that rely on a particu… Show more
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