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Recommended Citation: Finkbine, R B. Representing and Generating Mutant Programs in Support of Measuring Test Suite Effectiveness. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2006, v 23 (Dallas): §2122. ISSN: 1542-7382.

Representing and Generating Mutant Programs in Support of Measuring Test Suite Effectiveness

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5 pages

Ronald B. Finkbine    [a1] [a2]
Department of Computer Science
Indiana University Southeast    [u1] [u2]
New Albany, Indiana, USA    [c1] [c2]

Mutation testing is a technique of testing software, a form of white-box testing where the program is dealt with at statement level. It involves the production and execution of a modified version of a “correct” program, a mutant version, against its associated test suite. Each execution of a mutant can generate one of three logical results; (1) one of the test cases fails showing that the test suite is sufficient to detect the mutant program, (2) all test cases pass and this indicates a weakness in the test suite which needs to be repaired by the addition of a new test case, or (3) all test cases pass and a meaningless mutation program was generated. This paper discusses the database definition and support for representing and generating mutant programs.

Keywords: test suite effectiveness, mutant program, Java

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