Everything about Differential testing

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Differential testingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: propeller: testing for differences in cell type proportions in single cell dataInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Outstanding Assessment for Learning in the ClassroomThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Testing for differential abundance in mass cytometry dataCited 186 times
5. Go sideways: FuzzingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Symbolic executionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Testing for differential abundance in mass cytometry data

  Aaron T L Lun, Arianne C Richard, John C Marioni · 2017 · Nature Methods · 186 citations

• Collusion Versus Differential Efficiency: Testing Alternative Hypotheses

  Richard Schmalensee · 1987 · The Journal of Industrial Economics · 65 citations

• Toward a differential testing approach: Testing-the-limits employing the Raven matrices

  Jerry S. Carlson, Karl Heinz Wiedl · 1979 · Intelligence · 59 citations

• Testing Differential Gene Expression in Functional Groups

  R. Meister, U. Mansmann · 2005 · Methods of Information in Medicine · 58 citations

• Detecting Differential Speededness in Multistage Testing

  Wim J. Van Der Linden, Krista Breithaupt, Siang Chee Chuah · 2007 · Journal of Educational Measurement · 47 citations

• Testing Differential Item Functioning in Small Samples

  William C. M. Belzak · 2019 · Multivariate Behavioral Research · 39 citations

• Testing the differential urbanisation model for Italy

  Corrado Bonifazi, Frank Heins · 2003 · Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie · 32 citations

• Differential Testing of Certificate Validation in SSL/TLS Implementations

  Cong Tian, Chu Chen, Zhenhua Duan · 2019 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 27 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• propeller: testing for differences in cell type proportions in single cell data

  Belinda Phipson, Choon Boon Sim, Enzo R Porrello · 2022 · Bioinformatics · 435 citations

• Keep It Simple: Testing Databases via Differential Query Plans

  Jinsheng Ba, Manuel Rigger · 2024 · Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data · 30 citations

• Testing Differential Item Functioning Without Predefined Anchor Items Using Robust Regression

  Weimeng Wang, Yang Liu, Hongyun Liu · 2022 · Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics · 23 citations

• Detecting C++ Compiler Front-End Bugs via Grammar Mutation and Differential Testing

  Haoxin Tu, He Jiang, Zhide Zhou · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 19 citations

• Rustlantis: Randomized Differential Testing of the Rust Compiler

  Qian Wang, Ralf Jung · 2024 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 16 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Outstanding Assessment for Learning in the ClassroomJayne Bartlett · 2015
• 📕Disordered Thinking and the RorschachJames H. Kleiger · 2013
• 📕Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic PhenomenaJames H. Kleiger · 2017
• Essentials of DAS-II assessmentRon Dumont · 2008
• Congestive heart failureJeffrey D. Hosenpud, Barry H. Greenberg · 2006
• Eye Movement Disorders in Clinical PracticeShirley H. Wray · 2013
• 📕Clinical utility of the dexamethasone supression testRobert M. A. Hirschfeld, David J. Kupfer · 1985
• Thermal analysis of plasticsGottfried W. Ehrenstein, Gabriela Riedel · 2004

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