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Số người truy cập: 106,047,650
Addressing mutation testing problems by applying multi-objective optimization algorithms and higher order mutation
Tác giả hoặc Nhóm tác giả:
Quang-Vu Nguyen; Lech Madeyski
Nơi đăng:
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems;
S
ố:
32 (2017);
Từ->đến trang
: 1173–1182;
Năm:
2017
Lĩnh vực:
Công nghệ thông tin;
Loại:
Bài báo khoa học;
Thể loại:
Quốc tế
TÓM TẮT
Traditional mutation testing is a powerful technique to evaluate the quality of test suites. Unfortunately, it is not yet widely used due to the problems of a large number of generated mutants, limited realism (mutants not necessarily reflect real software defects), and equivalent mutants problem. Higher order mutation (HOM) testing has been proposed to overcome
these limitations of first order mutation testing. We present an empirical evaluation of our approach to higher order mutation testing. We apply different multi-objective optimization algorithms (including one modified by us), as well as our classification of HOMs, proposed objectives and fitness functions. We search for “High Quality and Reasonable HOMs” able to replace all of its constituent FOMs without scarifying test effectiveness and to reflect complex defects requiring more than one change to correct them. Our approach leads to: 1) reduced cost of mutation testing due to reduced number of HOMs, 2) harder to kill mutants (which mimic harder to find defects), 3) reduced cost of mutation testing as it does not waste resources for creating
easy-to-kill mutants. Furthermore, we establish a relevant upper bound on mutation order in higher order mutation testing and thus reduce the cost of mutation even further.
ABSTRACT
Traditional mutation testing is a powerful technique to evaluate the quality of test suites. Unfortunately, it is not yet widely used due to the problems of a large number of generated mutants, limited realism (mutants not necessarily reflect real software defects), and equivalent mutants problem. Higher order mutation (HOM) testing has been proposed to overcome
these limitations of first order mutation testing. We present an empirical evaluation of our approach to higher order mutation testing. We apply different multi-objective optimization algorithms (including one modified by us), as well as our classification of HOMs, proposed objectives and fitness functions. We search for “High Quality and Reasonable HOMs” able to replace all of its constituent FOMs without scarifying test effectiveness and to reflect complex defects requiring more than one change to correct them. Our approach leads to: 1) reduced cost of mutation testing due to reduced number of HOMs, 2) harder to kill mutants (which mimic harder to find defects), 3) reduced cost of mutation testing as it does not waste resources for creating
easy-to-kill mutants. Furthermore, we establish a relevant upper bound on mutation order in higher order mutation testing and thus reduce the cost of mutation even further.
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