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This short article provides a brief description of the main issues that underly the study of property testing. It is meant to serve as a general introduction to a collection of surveys and extended abstracts that cover various specific subareas and research directions in property testing.
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Goldreich, O. (2010). A Brief Introduction to Property Testing. In: Goldreich, O. (eds) Property Testing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6390. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16367-8_1
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