A good test suite is one that detects real faults. Because the set of faults in a program is
usually unknowable, this definition is not useful to practitioners who are creating test suites …

Mutation Testing is a fault-based software testing technique that has been widely studied for
over three decades. The literature on Mutation Testing has contributed a set of approaches …

Several module and class testing techniques have been applied to object‐oriented (OO)
programs, but researchers have only recently begun develo** test criteria that evaluate …

The current virtualization solution in the Cloud widely relies on hypervisor-based
technologies. Along with the recent popularity of Docker, the container-based virtualization …

This paper introduces a new paradigm for Mutation Testing, which we call Higher Order
Mutation Testing (HOM Testing). Traditional Mutation Testing considers only first order …

Regression testing is an important activity in the software life cycle, but it can also be very
expensive. To reduce the cost of regression testing, software testers may prioritize their test …

O primeiro objetivo deste livro é servir como livro-texto para disciplinas de cursos
relacionados ao desenvolvimento de software como Ciência ou Engenharia da …

The effectiveness of mutation testing depends heavily on the types of faults that the mutation
operators are designed to represent. Therefore, the quality of the mutation operators is key …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

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 …