Reduction of test suites using mutation

Authors:
Macario Polo Usaola;Pedro Reales Mateo;Beatriz Pérez Lamancha
Affiliations:
Department of Information Systems and Technologies, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain;Department of Information Systems and Technologies, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain;Software Testing Centre (CES), University of Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
Venue:
FASE'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This article proposes an algorithm for reducing the size of test suites, using the mutation score as the criterion for selecting the test cases while preserving the quality of the suite. Its utility is also checked with a set of experiments, using benchmark programs and industrial software.