This paper reports on results from a systematic review that characterizes the state-of-the-art
on cost reduction for mutation testing. It analyzes the evolution of research on this topic and …

Test Case Prioritization (TCP) is an increasingly important regression testing technique for
reordering test cases according to a pre-defined goal, particularly as agile practices gain …

Identifying faulty program entities has been recognized as one of the most expensive,
tedious and time-consuming processes in software debugging activity. Fault localization …

Mutation testing is one of the most powerful methodologies to evaluate the quality of test
suites, and has also been demonstrated to be effective for various other testing and …

As a software system evolves, its test suite can accumulate redundancies over time. Test
minimization aims at removing redundant test cases. However, current techniques remove …

Mutation testing is widely considered as a high-end test coverage criterion due to the vast
number of mutants it generates. Although many efforts have been made to reduce the …

Mutation testing is the state-of-the-art technique for assessing the fault-detection capacity of
a test suite. Unfortunately, mutation testing consumes enormous computing resources …

In testing, engineers want to run the most useful tests early (prioritization). When tests are
run hundreds or thousands of times, minimizing a test set can result in significant savings …

Test case prioritization (TCP), which aims to find the optimal test case execution sequences
for specific testing objects, has been widely used in regression testing. A wide variety of …

Background: Newspaper headlines still regularly report latent software defects. Such defects
have often evaded testing for many years. It remains difficult to identify how well a system …