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Semi-automatic test case expansion for mutation testing

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Mutation testing is the state-of-the-art technique for detecting weaknesses in a test suite. Unfortunately, alleviating these weakness (i.e. "killing the surviving mutants") is quite labour-intensive. In this paper we investigate a recommender system which expands test cases with extra asserts for the easy-to-fix mutants. We evaluated a proof-of-concept tool on ten open-source projects, and killed up to 6% of the surviving mutants. This illustrates that such a test expansion system would free up valuable time to address the harder-to-fix mutants.
Book: Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests (VST), February 18, 2020, London, ON, Canada / Pinzger, Martin [edit]; et al. [edit]
Pages: 1 - 7
ISBN:978-1-7281-6271-3
Publication year:2020
Keywords:P1 Proceeding
Accessibility:Closed

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  • Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Workshop on Validation, Analysis and Evolution of Software Tests (VST), February 18, 2020, London, ON, Canada / Pinzger, Martin [edit]; et al. [edit] (Conference)

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