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 …

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 …

Mutation analysis has many applications, such as asserting the quality of test suites and
localizing faults. One important bottleneck of mutation analysis is scalability. The latest work …

Concurrent programs are replacing the sequential programs as they utilize the true
capabilities of multicore architecture. The extensive use of multicore systems and …

Background: Concurrent software testing is a costly and difficult task, especially due to the
exponential increase in the test sequences caused by non-determinism. Such an issue has …

Software testing techniques are crucial for detecting faults in software and reducing the risk
of using it. As such, it is important that we have a good understanding of how to evaluate …

The question of how to generate high-utility mutations, to be used for testing purposes, forms
a key challenge in mutation testing literature.% Existing approaches rely either on human …

Given two programs, say P and Q, a differentiator is a test suite T such that execution of P
and Q on T produces different outcomes; this concept is used in mutation testing, where it is …

Because of the wide use of randomized scheduling in concurrency testing research, it is
important to understand randomized scheduling and its limitations. This work analyzes how …