NDLI: Semantic Mutation Testing

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Clark, J.A. Dan, H. Hierons, R.M.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Mutation testing is a powerful and flexible test technique. Traditional mutation testing makes a small change to the syntax of a description (usually a program) in order to create a mutant. A test set is considered to be good if it distinguishes between the original description and all of the (functionally nonequivalent) mutants. These mutants can be seen as representing potential small slips and thus mutation testing aims to produce a test set that is good at finding such slips. It has also been argued that a test set that finds such small changes is likely to find larger changes. This paper introduces a new approach to mutation testing, called semantic mutation testing. Rather than mutate the description, semantic mutation testing mutates the semantics of the language in which the description is written. The mutations of the semantics of the language represent possible misunderstandings of the description language and thus capture a different class of faults. Since the likely misunderstandings are highly context dependent, this context should be used to determine which semantic mutants should be produced. The approach is illustrated through examples with state charts and C code. In addition, a semantic mutation testing tool for C is proposed.
Starting Page	100
Ending Page	109
File Size	241570
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424467730
e-ISBN	9781424467747
DOI	10.1109/ICSTW.2010.8
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-04-06
Publisher Place	France
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software testing System testing Automation Surface-mount technology Genetic mutations Programming mutation testing Mathematics semantics Information systems Computer science Automatic testing misunderstandings
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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