How Do Java Mutation Tools Differ?

doi:10.1145/3526099

How Do Java Mutation Tools Differ?

2022-11-22

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OVER A DECADE ago, Jeff Offutt noted, The field of mutation analysis has been growing, both in the number of published papers and the number of active researchers.(33) This trend has since continued, as confirmed by a survey of recent literature.(36) Mutation analysis is the use of well-defined rules defined on syntactic descriptions to make systematic changes to the syntax or to objects developed from the syntax.(33) It has been successfully used in research for assessing test efficacy and as a building block for testing and debugging approaches. It systematically generates syntactic variations, called mutants, of an original program based on a set of mutation operators, which are well-defined program transformation rules. The most common use case of mutation analysis is to assess test efficacy. In this use case, mutants represent faulty versions of the original program, and the ratio of detected mutants quantifies a test suite's efficacy. Empirical evidence supports the use of systematically

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