Objective measurement of test quality is one of the key issues in software testing. It has been
a major research focus for the last two decades. Many test criteria have been proposed and …

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 …

Testing involves examining the behaviour of a system in order to discover potential faults.
Given an input for a system, the challenge of distinguishing the corresponding desired …

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 …

Mutation testing is a technique, originally proposed by DeMillo et al.[1978] and Hamlet
[1977], that requires a person testing a program to create test data that causes a finite, well …

Software bugs remain a compelling problem. Automated program repair is a promising
approach for reducing cost, and many methods have recently demonstrated positive results …

Mutation testing is a technique for unit-testing software that, although powerful, is
computationally expensive. The principal expense of mutation is that many variants of the …

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 …

Mutation analysis generates tests that distinguish variations, or mutants, of an artifact from
the original. Mutation analysis is widely considered to be a powerful approach to testing, and …

Of the various testing strategies, mutation testing has been empirically found to be effective
in detecting faults. However, mutation often imposes unacceptable demands on computing …