An Analysis and Survey of the Development of Mutation Testing

Mutation Testing is a fault-based software testing technique that has been widely studied for over three decades. The literature on Mutation Testing has contributed a set of approaches, tools, developments, and empirical results. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis and survey of Mutation Te...

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Published inIEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. 37; no. 5; pp. 649 - 678
Main Authors Yue Jia, Harman, M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.09.2011
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Analysis
Automata
Computer languages
Digital Object Identifier
Educational institutions
Fault detection
Fault diagnosis
Genetic mutations
History
Hypotheses
Java
Mutation
Mutation testing
Optimization techniques
Programmers
Programming profession
Software engineering
Software testing
Studies
survey
Testing
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Summary:Mutation Testing is a fault-based software testing technique that has been widely studied for over three decades. The literature on Mutation Testing has contributed a set of approaches, tools, developments, and empirical results. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis and survey of Mutation Testing. The paper also presents the results of several development trend analyses. These analyses provide evidence that Mutation Testing techniques and tools are reaching a state of maturity and applicability, while the topic of Mutation Testing itself is the subject of increasing interest.
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ISSN:0098-5589
1939-3520
DOI:10.1109/TSE.2010.62