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Discovering metamorphic relations from user questions aids scientific software testing. This approach leverages end-user expertise to improve software quality for tools like the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM).

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Area of Science:

Software Engineering
Environmental Modeling
Scientific Computing

Background:

Scientific software requires long-term maintenance and evolution.
Metamorphic testing, a property-based technique, is effective for scientific software.
Developing metamorphic relations demands significant tester expertise.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore uncovering metamorphic relations from user forum questions.
To investigate end-user expertise in interpreting scientific software results.
To classify user-oriented metamorphic relations based on software output.

Main Methods:

Analyzed user questions from the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) user forum.
Identified potential metamorphic relations from user-posed problems and queries.
Classified identified relations into nominal, ordinal, and functional hierarchies.

Main Results:

User forums contain valuable expertise for deriving metamorphic relations.
Successfully uncovered user-oriented metamorphic relations from SWMM forum data.
A classification hierarchy (nominal, ordinal, functional) aids relation understanding.

Conclusions:

User-generated content is a rich source for metamorphic relation discovery.
This method reduces the expertise barrier for metamorphic testing in scientific software.
The proposed classification provides a structured way to utilize user-derived relations.