Historically, researchers have proposed and applied many techniques to reduce the cost of
mutation testing. It has become difficult to find all techniques and to understand the cost …

Mutation testing realizes 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 …

Mutation testing introduces artificial defects to measure the adequacy of testing. In case
candidate tests can distinguish the behaviour of mutants from that of the original program …

Mutation testing is a powerful methodology for evaluating test suite quality. In mutation
testing, a large number of mutants are generated and executed against the test suite to …

Although white-box regression test prioritization has been well-studied, the more recently
introduced black-box prioritization approaches have neither been compared against each …

Many studies suggest using coverage concepts, such as branch coverage, as the starting
point of testing, while others as the most prominent test quality indicator. Yet the relationship …

Empirical validation of software testing studies is increasingly relying on mutants. This
practice is motivated by the strong correlation between mutant scores and real fault …

Much research on software testing and test techniques relies on experimental studies based
on mutation testing. In this paper we reveal that such studies are vulnerable to a potential …

Mutation testing is the process whereby a fault is deliberately inserted into a software
system, in order to assess the quality of test data, in terms of its ability to find this fault …

Mutation testing realises the idea of fault-based testing, ie, using artificial defects to guide
the testing process. It is used to evaluate the adequacy of test suites and to guide test case …