Automated Estimation of the Rate of Equivalent Mutants

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2020

Abstract

Whereas most past research on mutation equivalence has focused on analyzing a base program and a mutant to determine whether they are equivalent, we favor an orthogonal approach: We argue that in addition to being difficult and error-prone, the determination of whether two programs are equivalent is also often unnecessary. For most practical applications, it is not necessary to identify equivalent mutants individually; it is sufficient to estimate their number. In this paper, we discuss an automated tool that does so by static analysis of the base program.

Identifier

85113371090 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781728176246]

Publication Title

Proceedings 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence Csci 2020

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCI51800.2020.00331

First Page

1794

Last Page

1799

Grant

DGE 1565478

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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