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Authors: Ilona Bluemke and Karol Kulesza

Affiliation: Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Keyword(s): Mutation Testing, Cost Reduction, Java Testing.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Software Engineering ; Software Engineering Methods and Techniques ; Software Testing and Maintenance

Abstract: In mutation analysis many simple modification of the original program called “mutants” are created. Test cases which are supposed to identify the introduced program changes are designed. Each mutant must be “killed” by a test case, i.e. the test case should detect the purposely introduced modification. Mutation testing is known to be effective but computationally demanding and time consuming because a large number of mutants has to be tested. Mutation score, which is the fraction of mutants that are killed by a test set, is often used to evaluate the effectiveness of mutation testing. An interesting research question is if the number of mutants can be reduced without significantly decreasing the effectiveness of the test. We were exploring selective reductions of mutants generated for Java programs. The results of several experiments conducted in the Eclipse environment are presented in this paper. These results show that selective reduction in mutants can significantly reduce the co st of testing with acceptable mutation score and code coverage. (More)

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Paper citation in several formats:
Bluemke, I. and Kulesza, K. (2014). Reduction in Mutation Testing of Java Classes. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (ICSOFT 2014) - ICSOFT-EA; ISBN 978-989-758-036-9, SciTePress, pages 297-304. DOI: 10.5220/0004992102970304

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JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (ICSOFT 2014) - ICSOFT-EA
TI - Reduction in Mutation Testing of Java Classes
SN - 978-989-758-036-9
AU - Bluemke, I.
AU - Kulesza, K.
PY - 2014
SP - 297
EP - 304
DO - 10.5220/0004992102970304
PB - SciTePress