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Haoyang Song
dblp:297/1039
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software testing · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Software testing
test oracle |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | A Test Oracle for Reinforcement Learning Software Based on Lyapunov Stability Control Theory · ICSE 2025 |
Software testing › test oracle
test oracle generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | A Test Oracle for Reinforcement Learning Software Based on Lyapunov Stability Control Theory · ICSE 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reinforcement learning · 0.9lyapunov stability control theory · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | A Test Oracle for Reinforcement Learning Software Based on Lyapunov Stability Control TheoryabstractReinforcement Learning (RL) has gained significant attention in recent years. As RL software becomes more complex and infiltrates critical application domains, ensuring its quality and correctness becomes increasingly important. An indispensable aspect of software quality/correctness insurance is testing. However, testing RL software faces unique challenges compared to testing traditional software, due to the difficulty on defining the outputs' correctness. This leads to the RL test oracle problem. Current approaches to testing RL software often rely on human oracles, i.e. convening human experts to judge the correctness of RL software outputs. This heavily depends on the availability and quality (including the experiences, subjective states, etc.) of the human experts, and cannot be fully automated. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to design test oracles for RL software by leveraging the Lyapunov stability control theory. By incorporating Lyapunov stability concepts to guide RL training, we hypothesize that a correctly implemented RL software shall output an agent that respects Lyapunov stability control theories. Based on this heuristics, we propose a Lyapunov stability control theory based oracle,$\operatorname{LPEA}(\vartheta, \theta)$, for testing RL software. We conduct extensive experiments over representative RL algorithms and RL software bugs to evaluate our proposed oracle. The results show that our proposed oracle can outperform the human oracle in most metrics. Particularly, LPEA$(\vartheta=100 \%, \theta=75 \%)$outperforms the human oracle by$53.6 \%, 50 \%, 18.4 \%, 34.8 \%, 18.4 \%, 127.8 \%, 60.5 \%, 38.9 \%$, and 31.7 % respectively on accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, true positive rate, true negative rate, false positive rate, false negative rate, and ROC curve's AUC; and LPEA ($\vartheta=100 \%, \theta=50 \%$) outperforms the human oracle by$48.2 \%, 47.4 \%, 10.5 \%, 29.1 \%$,$10.5 \%, 127.8 \%, 60.5 \%, 22.2 \%$, and 26.0 % respectively on these metrics. Haoyang Song, Qixin Wang 0001, Henghua Shen, Yu Pei 0001 |
ICSE | 2 |