The class-level mutants of MuJava

Offutt, Jeff; Ma, Yu-Seung; Kwon, Yonghwi

doi:10.1145/1138929.1138945

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“…This number of operators is higher than the one presented in [14] for Java (29) and the same as the one shown in [5] for C# (37 operators without counting the invalid ones). The operator AMC [3,10,14] is different in C++ because the access level is specified by sections and not individually as in Java. Most operators in the inheritance category have been defined for Java [3,10,14] and taken in C# [5].…”

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confidence: 43%

“…As the presence of the OO paradigm rose, mutation testing research regarding its characteristics increased as well. Most of the studies concerning this paradigm have been carried out around Java [14] and, in a smaller proportion, around C# [5]. In [4], Derezińska listed several common mistakes for the OO features of C++, but did not define a formal set of mutation operators.…”

Section: Mutation Operatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The C++03 standard is taken as reference because it is soon to define operators for the C++11 standard (it is not widely used yet). At the same time, contributions in other languages have been analysed, chiefly around Java [10,12,14], because this language has drawn the attention of multiple studies, and also C# [5]; this fact offers insight into the nature of the mistakes that programmers frequently make. These languages are syntactically similar, taking Java much of the C++ syntax but removing many of the low-level facilities (the main differences between these two languages are listed in [8]).…”

Section: Mutation Operatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The operator AMC [3,10,14] is different in C++ because the access level is specified by sections and not individually as in Java. Most operators in the inheritance category have been defined for Java [3,10,14] and taken in C# [5]. However, ISI, ISD, IPC and IOP change with respect to Java as they are related to the super keyword, which does not exist in C++ because of the multiple inheritance.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Regarding C++, only some typical faults concerning OO features have been enumerated [4]. Nevertheless, class mutation operators have been defined for other languages like Java [14] and C# [5].…”

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Mutation testing is a fault injection testing technique around which a great variety of studies and tools for different programming languages have been developed. Nevertheless, the mutation testing research with respect to C++ is pending. This paper proposes a set of class mutation operators related to this language and its particular object-oriented (OO) features. In addition, an implementation technique to apply mutation testing based on the traversal of the abstract syntax tree (AST) is presented. Finally, an experiment is conducted to study the operator behaviour with different C++ programs, suggesting their usefulness in the creation of complete test suites. The analysis includes a Web Service (WS) library, one of the domains where this technique can prove useful, considering its challenging testing phase and that C++ is still a reference language for critical distributed systems WS.

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