Using program slicing to assist in the detection of equivalent mutants

Using program slicing to assist in the detection of equivalent mutants

While mutation testing has proved to be an effective way of finding software faults, currently it is only applied to relatively small programs. One of the main reasons for this is the human analysis required in detecting equivalent mutants. Here program slicing is used to simplify this problem. Prog...

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Veröffentlicht in:Software testing, verification & reliability verification & reliability, 1999-12, Vol.9 (4), p.233-262
Hauptverfasser: Hierons, Rob, Harman, Mark, Danicic, Sebastian
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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equivalent mutants
mutation testing
program slicing
stubborn mutants
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Zusammenfassung:While mutation testing has proved to be an effective way of finding software faults, currently it is only applied to relatively small programs. One of the main reasons for this is the human analysis required in detecting equivalent mutants. Here program slicing is used to simplify this problem. Progam slicing is also used to reduce the number of equivalent mutants produced. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN:0960-0833
1099-1689
DOI:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1689(199912)9:4<233::AID-STVR191>3.0.CO;2-3