ICST
2011
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2011
IEEE
—A known problem of traditional coverage metrics is that they do not assess oracle quality—that is, whether the computation result is actually checked against expectations. In ...
SSIRI
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
— Model-based approaches, especially based on directed graphs (DG), are becoming popular for mutation testing as they enable definition of simple, nevertheless powerful, mutation...
IEE
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Popular code coverage measures, such as branch coverage, are indicators of the thoroughness rather than the fault detection capability of test suites. Mutation testing is a fault-...
ENTCS
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
This article discusses mutation testing strategies in the context of refinement. Here, a novel generalization of mutation testing techniques is presented to be applied to contract...
ISSRE
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2002
IEEE
The effectiveness of mutation testing depends heavily on the types of faults that the mutation operators are designed to represent. Therefore, the quality of the mutation operator...
GECCO
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2004
Springer
The use of Genetic Algorithms in evolution of mutants and test cases offers new possibilities in addressing some of the main problems of mutation testing. Most specifically the p...
GECCO
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2005
Springer
The efficient and effective generation of test-data from high-level models is of crucial importance in advanced modern software engineering. Empirical studies have shown that muta...
ICSM
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2005
IEEE
Testing plays an important role in the maintenance of Component Based Software Development. Test adequacy for component testing is one of the hardest issues for component testing....
SCAM
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Traditional mutation testing considers only first order mutants, created by the injection of a single fault. Often these first order mutants denote trivial faults that are easil...
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 3 days ago
2007
ACM
To increase confidence in the correctness of specified policies, policy developers can conduct policy testing by supplying typical test inputs (requests) and subsequently checking...