Abstract:Mutation testing is an established fault-based testing technique. It operates by seeding faults into the programs under test and asking developers to write tests that reveal these faults. These tests have the potential to reveal a large number of faults -those that couple with the seeded ones -and thus are deemed important. To this end, mutation testing should seed faults that are both "natural" in a sense easily understood by developers and strong (have high chances to reveal faults). To achieve this we propo… Show more
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