Timeline for What is the term for testing a system's behavior by comparing it to a system that is known to work correctly?
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| Nov 13, 2018 at 0:17 | comment | added | Michael Durrant | I agree it is usually to compare against a previous state that you control. I think it could also be applied (with note) against a known state in another system. Thanks for teaching me about the oracle term. | |
| Nov 12, 2018 at 22:32 | comment | added | beatngu13 | While regression testing indeed uses a derived oracle—a previous version of the SUT, which is why Hoffman calls this consistency oracle since it compares the consistency between two versions—I think that it is an important difference whether you use your own implementation or a different system to verify your test results. | |
| Nov 12, 2018 at 17:46 | history | answered | Michael Durrant | CC BY-SA 4.0 |