Effectiveness of 10-Selective Mutation Testing Technique: Case of Small Programs
Falah Bouchaib, Bouriat Salwa, Achahbar Ouidad
Progress in Computing Applications, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2013.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/pca/fulltext/v2n2/3.pdf
Abstract:
Mutation Testing is a faultâ€“based software testing technique that has been neglected by industry for a long time because of its high cost. The rising research in this field has resulted in the development of several approaches that aim to reduce the cost of testing and to assess the quality of mutantsâ€™ generation and destruction. Some approaches suggest decreasing the number of operators, while others intend to reduce the execution time. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of 10-selective mutation approaches. The experimental part of this research was based on testing seven Java programs using MuClipse tool. The analysis of the findings has proved that the cost of mutation testing can be minimized by selecting a subset (10 operators) from mutation operators.