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Testing machine learning based systems : a systematic mapping

Riccio, Vincenzo ; Jahangirova, Gunel ; Stocco, Andrea ; Humbatova, Nargiz ; Weiss, Michael ; Tonella, Paolo

In: Empirical Software Engineering, 2020, vol. 25, no. 6, p. 5193–5254

Context: A Machine Learning based System (MLS) is a software system including one or more components that learn how to perform a task from a given data set. The increasing adoption of MLSs in safety critical domains such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and finance has fostered much attention towards the quality assurance of such systems. Despite the advances in software testing, MLSs bring...