Add to ORKGThough mutation testing has been widely studied for more than thirty years, the prevalence and properties of equivalent mutants remain largely unknown. We report on the causes and prevalence of equivalent mutants and their relationship to stubborn mutants (those that remain undetected by a high quality test suite, yet are non-equivalent). Our results, based on manual analysis of 1,230 mutants from 18 programs, reveal a highly uneven distribution of equivalence and stubbornness. For example, the ABS class and half UOI class generate many equivalent and almost no stubborn mutants, while the LCR class generates many stubborn and few equivalent mutants. We conclude that previous test effectiveness studies based on fault seeding could be skewed,...
Though mutation analysis is the primary means of evaluating the quality of test suites, though it su...
Program mutation is the process of generating versions of a base program by applying elementary synt...
Context: As a fault-based testing technique, mutation testing is effective at evaluating the quality...
Context: Mutation testing is considered to be a powerful approach to assess and improve the qualit...
Mutation Testing has been shown to be a powerful technique in detecting software faults. Despite thi...
Identifying equivalent mutants remains the largest impediment to the widespread uptake of mutation t...
Context: Mutation testing is a fault-based technique for measuring the effectiveness of a test set i...
Mutation analysis is a popular but costly approach to assess the quality of test suites. Equivalent ...
<p>Identifying equivalent mutants remains the largest impediment to the widespread uptake of mutatio...
In mutation testing, faulty versions of a program are generated through automated modifications of s...
Equivalent mutant problem is the most decisive problem in mutation testing and from decades efforts ...
Trivial Compiler Equivalence (TCE) has been recently proposed as an effective technique to detect eq...
In this paper, we develop a new mutation testing technique called Interlocutory Mutation Testing (IM...
The empirical assessment of test techniques plays an important role in software testing research. On...
Mutation Testing is a fault injection technique used to measure test adequacy score by generating de...
Though mutation analysis is the primary means of evaluating the quality of test suites, though it su...
Program mutation is the process of generating versions of a base program by applying elementary synt...
Context: As a fault-based testing technique, mutation testing is effective at evaluating the quality...
Context: Mutation testing is considered to be a powerful approach to assess and improve the qualit...
Mutation Testing has been shown to be a powerful technique in detecting software faults. Despite thi...
Identifying equivalent mutants remains the largest impediment to the widespread uptake of mutation t...
Context: Mutation testing is a fault-based technique for measuring the effectiveness of a test set i...
Mutation analysis is a popular but costly approach to assess the quality of test suites. Equivalent ...
<p>Identifying equivalent mutants remains the largest impediment to the widespread uptake of mutatio...
In mutation testing, faulty versions of a program are generated through automated modifications of s...
Equivalent mutant problem is the most decisive problem in mutation testing and from decades efforts ...
Trivial Compiler Equivalence (TCE) has been recently proposed as an effective technique to detect eq...
In this paper, we develop a new mutation testing technique called Interlocutory Mutation Testing (IM...
The empirical assessment of test techniques plays an important role in software testing research. On...
Mutation Testing is a fault injection technique used to measure test adequacy score by generating de...
Though mutation analysis is the primary means of evaluating the quality of test suites, though it su...
Program mutation is the process of generating versions of a base program by applying elementary synt...
Context: As a fault-based testing technique, mutation testing is effective at evaluating the quality...