Who judges the judge: An empirical study on online judge tests
Online Judge platforms play a pivotal role in education, competitive programming,
recruitment, career training, and large language model training. They rely on predefined test …
recruitment, career training, and large language model training. They rely on predefined test …
Guiding greybox fuzzing with mutation testing
Greybox fuzzing and mutation testing are two popular but mostly independent fields of
software testing research that have so far had limited overlap. Greybox fuzzing, generally …
software testing research that have so far had limited overlap. Greybox fuzzing, generally …
On comparing mutation testing tools through learning-based mutant selection
Recently many mutation testing tools have been proposed that rely on bug-fix patterns and
natural language models trained on large code corpus. As these tools operate …
natural language models trained on large code corpus. As these tools operate …
Please fix this mutant: How do developers resolve mutants surfaced during code review?
Mutation testing has been demonstrated to motivate developers to write more tests when
presented with undetected, actionable mutants. To facilitate this effect, modern mutation …
presented with undetected, actionable mutants. To facilitate this effect, modern mutation …
A Mutation-Guided Assessment of Acceleration Approaches for Continuous Integration: An Empirical Study of YourBase
Continuous Integration (CI) is a popular software development practice that quickly verifies
updates to codebases. To cope with the ever-increasing demand for faster software …
updates to codebases. To cope with the ever-increasing demand for faster software …
Contextual Predictive Mutation Testing
Mutation testing is a powerful technique for assessing and improving test suite quality that
artificially introduces bugs and checks whether the test suites catch them. However, it is also …
artificially introduces bugs and checks whether the test suites catch them. However, it is also …
Syntax Is All You Need: A Universal-Language Approach to Mutant Generation
While mutation testing has been a topic of academic interest for decades, it is only recently
that “real-world” developers, including industry leaders such as Google and Meta, have …
that “real-world” developers, including industry leaders such as Google and Meta, have …
Equivalent Mutants in the Wild: Identifying and Efficiently Suppressing Equivalent Mutants for Java Programs
B Kushigian, SJ Kaufman, R Featherman… - Proceedings of the 33rd …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The presence of equivalent mutants has long been considered a major obstacle to the
widespread adoption of mutation analysis and mutation testing. This paper presents a study …
widespread adoption of mutation analysis and mutation testing. This paper presents a study …
Subsumption, correctness and relative correctness: Implications for software testing
Abstract Context. Several Research areas emerged and have been proceeding
independently when in fact they have much in common. These include: mutant subsumption …
independently when in fact they have much in common. These include: mutant subsumption …
FrMi: Fault-revealing Mutant Identification using killability severity
T Rostami, S Jalili - Information and Software Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Context: Mutation testing is a powerful method used in software testing for various activities,
such as guidance for test case generation and test suite quality assessment. However, a …
such as guidance for test case generation and test suite quality assessment. However, a …