Towards Effective and Efficient High Order Mutation

Pedro Reales Mateo, Macario Polo Usaola

2013

Abstract

Mutation testing is a very effective testing technique. However, it remains very expensive. Several techniques to reduce costs have been proposed, One of them is High Order Mutation. This technique can reduce the costs of mutation testing with a decrement of the effectiveness. This paper proposes and evaluates a novel type of mutation, mutants-integration mutation that improves the effectiveness of High Order Mutation keeping its advantages. The result obtained in the experimentation leads one to think that using the new proposed type of mutation improves test cases generations when high order mutation is applied.

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in Harvard Style

Reales Mateo P. and Polo Usaola M. (2013). Towards Effective and Efficient High Order Mutation . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop in Software Evolution and Modernization - Volume 1: SEM, (ENASE 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-66-2, pages 21-29. DOI: 10.5220/0004588200210029


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sem13,
author={Pedro Reales Mateo and Macario Polo Usaola},
title={Towards Effective and Efficient High Order Mutation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop in Software Evolution and Modernization - Volume 1: SEM, (ENASE 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={21-29},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004588200210029},
isbn={978-989-8565-66-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop in Software Evolution and Modernization - Volume 1: SEM, (ENASE 2013)
TI - Towards Effective and Efficient High Order Mutation
SN - 978-989-8565-66-2
AU - Reales Mateo P.
AU - Polo Usaola M.
PY - 2013
SP - 21
EP - 29
DO - 10.5220/0004588200210029