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 …

Performance bugs are known to be a major threat to the success of software products.
Performance tests aim to detect performance bugs by executing the program through test …

Performance models have been used in the past to understand the performance
characteristics of software systems. However, the identification of performance criticalities is …

Smart contracts (SC) are programs embodying certain business logic stored on a blockchain
network like Ethereum. The execution of transactions on SC has a cost, measured in gas …

Mutation testing (MT) is regarded as a gold standard way to assess test suite (TS) fault
finding capability and to verify the effectiveness of software testing methodologies. However …

Many operators are provided with the mutation testing tool. However, with many of the
mutants tested it will produce many that are identified so that it requires a lot of time to repair …

abstract Performance models have been used in the past to understand the performance
characteristics of software systems. However, the identification of performance criticalities is …

This paper presents the framework for Android apps testing using mutation technique. A
systematic comparative analysis is done based on various approaches and techniques …

In this thesis, we specifically focus on testing non-functional proprieties. We target the Worst-
Case Execution Time (WCET), which is very important for real-time tasks. This thesis applies …