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Enabling Mutant Generation for Open- and Closed-Source Android Apps
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DOI：10.1109/TSE.2020.2982638.png)
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Mutation testing has been widely used to assess the fault-detection effectiveness of a test suite, as well as to guide test case generation or prioritization. Empirical studies have shown that, while mutants are generally representative of real faults, an effective application of mutation testing requires traditional operators designed for programming languages to be augmented with operators specific to an application domain and/or technology. The case for Android apps is not an exception. Therefore, in this paper we describe the process we followed to create (i) a taxonomy of mutation operations and, (ii) two tools, MDroid+ and MutAPK for mutant generation of Android apps. To this end, we systematically devise a taxonomy of 262 types of Android faults grouped in 14 categories by manually analyzing 2,023 software artifacts from different sources (e.g., bug reports, commits). Then, we identified a set of 38 mutation operators, and implemented them in two tools, the first enabling mutant generation at the source code level, and the second designed to perform mutations at APK level. The rationale for having a dual-approach is based on the fact that source code is not always available when conducting mutation testing. Thus, mutation testing for APKs enables new scenarios in which researchers/practitioners only have access to APK files. The taxonomy, proposed operators, and tools have been evaluated in terms of the number of non-compilable, trivial, equivalent, and duplicate mutants generated and their capacity to represent real faults in Android apps as compared to other well-known mutation tools.
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Mutation testing
fault taxonomy
mutation operators
android
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