QATest: A Uniform Fuzzing Framework for Question Answering Systems

The tremendous advancements in deep learning techniques have empowered question answering(QA) systems with the capability of dealing with various tasks. Many commercial QA systems, such as Siri, Google Home, and Alexa, have been deployed to assist people in different daily activities. However, modern QA systems are often designed to deal with different topics and task formats, which makes both the test collection and labeling tasks difficult and thus threats their quality.