An Experimental Evaluation of Web Mutation Operators

Praphamontripong, Upsorn; Offutt, Jeff; Deng, Lin; Gu, Jun

doi:10.1109/icstw.2016.17

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“…Circus specifications as well as an extensive study of mutant operators. Praphamontripong et al [88,89] and Mirshokraie et al [10] designed and studied mutant operators for web applications. Example operators are link/field/transition replacement and deletion.…”

Section: Mutant Operatorsmentioning

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Mutation Testing Advances: An Analysis and Survey

Papadakis

Kintis

Zhang

et al. 2019

Advances in Computers

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Mutation testing realises the idea of using artificial defects to support testing activities. Mutation is typically used as a way to evaluate the adequacy of test suites, to guide the generation of test cases and to support experimentation.Mutation has reached a maturity phase and gradually gains popularity both in academia and in industry. This chapter presents a survey of recent advances, over the past decade, related to the fundamental problems of mutation testing and sets out the challenges and open problems for the future development of the method. It also collects advices on best practices related to the use of mutation in empirical studies of software testing. Thus, giving the reader a 'mini-handbook'-style roadmap for the application of mutation testing as experimental methodology.

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Section: Mutant Operatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Example operators are link/field/transition replacement and deletion. In a follow up study, Praphamontripong and Offutt [90] refined the initial set of operators (they exclude 3 operators), i.e., operators proposed in [89], by considering the redundancy among the mutants they introduce.…”

Section: Mutant Operatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mutation Testing Advances: An Analysis and Survey

Papadakis

Kintis

Zhang

et al. 2019

Advances in Computers

349

343

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“…Mutation Operators. Since the introduction of mutation testing in the 70s [17,27], researchers have tried not only to define new mutation operators for different programming languages and paradigms (e.g., mutation operators have been defined for Java [44] and Python [19]) but also for specific types of software like Web applications [64] and data-intensive applications [8,80] either to exercise their GUIs [59] or to alter complex, model-defined input data [20]. The aim of our research, which we share with prior work, is to define customized mutation operators suitable for Android applications, by relying on a solid empirical foundation.…”

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Enabling mutation testing for Android apps

Linares‐Vásquez

Bavota

Tufano

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 11th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering

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Mutation testing has been widely used to assess the fault-detection effectiveness of a test suite, as well as to guide test case generation or prioritization. Empirical studies have shown that, while mutants are generally representative of real faults, an effective application of mutation testing requires "traditional" operators designed for programming languages to be augmented with operators specific to an application domain and/or technology. This paper proposes MDroid+, a framework for effective mutation testing of Android apps. First, we systematically devise a taxonomy of 262 types of Android faults grouped in 14 categories by manually analyzing 2,023 software artifacts from different sources (e.g., bug reports, commits). Then, we identified a set of 38 mutation operators, and implemented an infrastructure to automatically seed mutations in Android apps with 35 of the identified operators. The taxonomy and the proposed operators have been evaluated in terms of stillborn/trivial mutants generated and their capacity to represent real faults in Android apps, as compared to other well know mutation tools. CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Software verification and validation;

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“…For instance, Deng et al and Lindström et al proposed the use of mutation analysis to assess the adequacy of test suites for Android apps [26], [27]. Mutation testing has also recently been used to measure the effectiveness of test suites for web sites [28], [29], [30]. Additionally, mutation testing has been applied in other diverse domains such as mobile software agents (e.g., [31], [32]) and security policies (e.g., [33], [34]).…”

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confidence: 99%