Sufficient mutation operators for measuring test effectiveness

Akbar Siami Namin, James H. Andrews, Duncan J. Murdoch

Abstract

Mutants are automatically-generated, possibly faulty variants of programs. The mutation adequacy ratio of a test suite is the ratio of non-equivalent mutants it is able to identify to the total number of non-equivalent mutants. This ratio can be used as a measure of test effectiveness. However, it can be expensive to calculate, due to the large number of different mutation operators that have been proposed for generating the mutants.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Namin-al:ICSE08,
  author    = {Akbar Siami Namin and
               James H. Andrews and
               Duncan J. Murdoch},
  title     = {Sufficient mutation operators for measuring test effectiveness},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {351--360},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2008},
}

Sufficient mutation operators for measuring test effectiveness

Abstract

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