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 analysis evaluates a testing or debugging technique by measuring how well it
detects mutants, which are systematically seeded, artificial faults. Mutation analysis is …

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 …

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 …

Localizing failure-inducing code is essential for software debugging. Manual fault
localization can be quite tedious, error-prone, and time-consuming. Therefore, a huge body …

Mutation faults are the core of mutation testing and have been widely used in many other
software testing and debugging tasks. Hence, constructing high-quality mutation faults is …

Mutation testing is widely used in research as a metric for evaluating the quality of test
suites. Mutation testing runs the test suite on generated mutants (variants of the code under …

Mutation testing research has indicated that a major part of its application cost is due to the
large number of low utility mutants that it introduces. Although previous research has …

During software evolution, to assure the software quality, test cases for an early version tend
to be reused by its latter versions. As a large number of test cases may aggregate during …