Software testing

News and Updates

Illustration shows passengers boarding an international flight and having their faces matched to previously taken photos before passing through the gate.

NIST Evaluates Face Recognition Software’s Accuracy for Flight Boarding

July 13, 2021

The most accurate face recognition algorithms have demonstrated the capability to confirm airline passenger identities while making very few errors, according

NIST Asks Public to Help Future-Proof Electronic Information

December 20, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is officially asking the public for help heading off a looming threat to information security: quantum

Iris Recognition Report Evaluates 'Needle in Haystack' Search Capability

April 17, 2012

Identifying people by acquiring pictures of their eyes is becoming easier, according to a new report* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Projects and Programs

Measurement, Metrics, and Assurance

Ongoing

This Measurement, Metrics, and Assurance project focuses on measuring and assessing trustworthiness in software, systems and applications. It conducts research

FRVT 1:N Identification

Ongoing

FRVT 1:N has moved to https://pages.nist.gov/frvt/html/frvt1N.html

Software Performance Project

Completed

NOTE: This work was succeeded by the Software Metrology Project Software Metrology: Helping physical scientists and computer scientists understand one another a

Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) Ongoing

Ongoing

Publications

Guidelines on Minimum Standards for Developer Verification of Software

October 6, 2021

Author(s)

Paul E. Black, Vadim Okun, Barbara Guttman

Executive Order (EO) 14028, Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, 12 May 2021, directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to recommend

From Neuron Coverage to Steering Angle: Testing Autonomous Vehicles Effectively

August 2, 2021

Author(s)

Jack Toohey, M S Raunak, Dave Binkley

A Deep Neural Network (DNN) based system, such as the one used for autonomous vehicle operations, is a "black box" of complex interactions resulting in a

2018 Multimedia Forensics Challenges (MFC18): Summary and Results

November 12, 2020

Author(s)

Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Haiying Guan, Jonathan G. Fiscus, Daniel Zhou

The interest of forensic techniques capable of detecting many different manipulation types has been growing, and system developments with machine learning

Effectiveness of dataset reduction in testing machine learning algorithms

August 25, 2020

Author(s)

Raghu N. Kacker, David R. Kuhn

Abstract Many machine learning algorithms examine large amounts of data to discover insights from hidden patterns. Testing these algorithms can be expensive