Reducing the cost of mutation testing: an empirical study

We defined the term conditionally-overlapped (c-overlapped) mutants.C-overlapped mutants are expected to produce the same results against a test case.Clustering c-overlapped mutants effectively reduces the cost of mutation testing.Clustering c-...

Since the 1970s, researchers have widely used mutation as a testing technique, applying mainly it to validate test suites, as well as to validate test case strategies and test data generation. Mutation today is sufficiently mature for industrial ...

Mutation testing is a testing criterion used to measure the quality of a test suite. In mutation, a test suite is executed against the set of mutants of a given program under testing. A score is computed to measure the adequacy of the test suite in ...