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Bidirectional Empowerment of Metamorphic Testing and Large Language Models: A Systematic Survey

Daixu Ren, Tsong Yueh Chen, Yinwang Xu, Zenghui Zhou, Zheng Zheng

Metamorphic testing and large language models form a reciprocal relationship that addresses the oracle problem in AI systems.

arxiv:2605.13898 v1 · 2026-05-12 · cs.SE

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The reciprocal relationship is characterized as the bidirectional empowerment of MT and LLMs, with MT for LLMs addressing hallucination, fairness, robustness, code reliability, retrieval-augmented generation, dialogue, and autonomous agents, and LLMs for MT supporting metamorphic relation discovery, input transformation and synthesis, executable test implementation, and agentic closed-loop testing.

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The 93 primary studies selected for review are representative of the field and the proposed taxonomy accurately captures the key interactions without significant selection or categorization bias.

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A systematic survey of 93 studies that maps the bidirectional relationship between metamorphic testing and LLMs, proposing a taxonomy for MT applied to LLMs and LLMs applied to MT.

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[1] LLM assisted coding with metamorphic specification mutation agent,

[2] arXiv: 2511.18249. ACM Comput. Surv., Vol. 1, No. 1, Article . Publication date: May 2026. Bidirectional Empowerment of Metamorphic Testing and Large Language Models: A Systematic Survey 31 2026

[3] Metamorphic testing of deep code models: a systematic literature review.ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025 2025

[4] Large language models for software testing: a research roadmap, 2025 2025

[5] A Metamorphic Testing Perspective on Knowledge Distillation for Language Models of Code: Does the Student Deeply Mimic the Teacher? 2025 · arXiv:2511.05476

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arxiv: 2605.13898 · arxiv_version: 2605.13898v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.13898 · pith_short_12: 3JTFNXREFSZ4 · pith_short_16: 3JTFNXREFSZ4VLFC · pith_short_8: 3JTFNXRE

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