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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFB1001802).

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  1. School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China

    Tun Li, Wanwei Liu & Ji Wang

  2. Laboratory of Software Engineering for Complex Systems, Changsha, 410073, China

    Tun Li, Wanwei Liu & Ji Wang

  3. Microsoft STCA, Beijing, 100080, China

    Xinrui Guo

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Li, T., Liu, W., Guo, X. et al. Software testing without the oracle correctness assumption. Front. Comput. Sci. 14, 143203 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-019-8434-4

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