A generic approach to run mutation analysis

  • Authors:
  • Siamak Haschemi;Stephan Weißleder

  • Affiliations:
  • Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Fraunhofer Institut FIRST, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • TAIC PART'10 Proceedings of the 5th international academic and industrial conference on Testing - practice and research techniques
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Estimating the quality of test suites is an important and difficult task. Mutation analysis is one approach to measure test quality by injecting faults in a correct version of the system under test and measuring the percentage of faulty systems that are detected by the tests. There are several automatic mutation analysis tools. Each of them, however, is restricted to a comparatively small range of execution environments. In this paper, we introduce a generic approach to run mutation analysis and present a corresponding prototype implementation.