[ACM Press the 1993 international symposium - Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (1993.06.28-1993.06.30)] Proceedings of the 1993 international symposium on Software testing and analysis - ISSTA '93 - Mutation analysis using mutant schemata

✍ Scribed by Untch, Roland H.; Offutt, A. Jefferson; Harrold, Mary Jean

• Book ID: 120769460
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 852 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9780897916080
• DOI: 10.1145/154183.154265

✦ Synopsis

Mutation analysis is a powerful technique for assessing and improving the quality of test data used to unit test software. Unfortunately, current automated mutation analysis systems suffer from severe performance problems. This paper presents a new method for performing mutation analysis that uses program schemata to encode all mutants for a program into one metaprogram, which is subsequently compiled and run at speeds substantially higher than achieved by previous interpretive systems. Preliminary performance improvements of over 300~o are reported. This method has the additional advantages of being easier to implement than interpretive systems, being simpler to port across a wide range of hardware and software platforms, and using the same compiler and run-time support system that is used during development and/or deployment.